Ship with F-Droid priviledged extension for automatic F-Droid updates
Summary
Pre-install the F-Droid privileged extension to make automatic updates in F-Droid possible. This allows for automatic security updates (increasing security) for the very good app store F-Droid, which only includes FLOSS apps, thus featuring privacy.
This feature concerns
How to: Just pre-flash this package as a system app.
While you are at it, you could also pre-install F-Droid, but that is not needed as users can simply do this. Just installing is easy.
Note: Users can still choose whether they want automatic updates in the F-Droid settings.
Description
Who will use the new feature?
Users, who want to use private, free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) apps.
What is the target of the new feature for this user?
Easier installation, hassle-free, no need to approve installations manually. Automatic-secuity updates.
Why this user would like to use this feature?
Increase in security + priavcy (as mentioned above) and giving users the ability to decide what they want to do.
Examples
Automatic installing new apps (no need to wait for the stupid installing window). Automatically install updates.## Reflection
Mockups see F-Droid page, there is not a lot to see, it works in the background and that is good
Diagrams
Validation
Maybe test an installation?This has been requested before in the forum: https://community.e.foundation/t/feature-proposal-f-droid-priviledged-extension-as-system-app/11493?u=rugk