GNOME Software prompts to enable third party repos

[castrojo]

On fresh install when you first launch gnome-software you get this:

This is confusing because we set everything up already, so we need to find a way to disable this dialog. bigpod thinks it might be a dconf key.

[castrojo]

Perhaps setting /org/gnome/software/first-run to false?

[castrojo]

This is still happening so leaving it open, though the setting seems benign.

[bobslept]

This seems to be triggered by the existence of a state file located in /var/lib/fedora-third-party/state

The file is created with the fedora-third-party command which is actually run by yafti. The problem here is that it never succeeds because it hasn't enough rights to create this file.

Running it as a user will result in:

[user@fedora ~]$ fedora-third-party disable
fedora-third-party must be run as root.
[user@fedora ~]$ 

Another thing is that if gnome-software is launched (for example in the background) before the command actually did run with enough rights you will still see the the popup. If you first do a gnome-software --quit and then launch it again you don't see the popup.

[bobslept]

I think since we introduced the flatpak-manager we no longer have these prompts, because we disable the third party repos there also. And those run with higher permissions then before.

bluefin/usr/bin/ublue-system-flatpak-manager

Lines 39 to 40 in fe75d1d

	/usr/lib/fedora-third-party/fedora-third-party-opt-out
	/usr/bin/fedora-third-party disable

Tested on a clean installation with bluefin-38-2023-10-27-x86_64-rc.iso and don't see the prompts anymore.

Therefore I think this issue can be closed.