I noticed that flatpak does not seem to be getting rid of the fedora 43 runtimes even though I have updated to fedora 44 a while ago and no apps on my system seem to be using them, and I noticed they seem to be pinned for some reason:
> flatpak pin
Pinned patterns:
runtime/org.fedoraproject.Platform.GL.default/x86_64/f43
runtime/org.fedoraproject.Platform/x86_64/f43
What’s up with that? Is that expected? Should I unpin them?
It should be fine to unpin if no app is using them.
Side note:
There’s no necessary connection between the version of Fedora on your host, and the Flatpaks you have in use. You could in principle have a Fedora 44 system with apps running against an F43 Flatpak runtime, or vice versa.
ah right. I haven’t pinned those runtimes myself though, I’m confused why are they pinned.
I also don’t know why this would happen! If you can see that no app uses them though, it shouldn’t do any harm to remove them.
flatpak uninstall --unused
Works only if not pinned.
Also does not work if there are apps capable of using more than one version of certain flatpaks.
$ flatpak uninstall --unused
Nothing unused to uninstall
$ flatpak uninstall org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-595-71-05
Info: applications using the extension org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-595-71-05 branch 1.4:
org.gnome.Aisleriot, org.gnome.Crosswords, org.gnome.Mines, org.gnome.Reversi, org.gnome.Sudoku, org.asamk.SignalCli, org.freecad.FreeCAD
Really remove? [y/n]: y
ID Branch Op
1. [-] org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-595-71-05 1.4 r
Uninstall complete.
Those same listed apps also use the newer version of the nvidia flatpak
org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-610-57-04 and as a result removing the older one does not prevent those apps from functioning.
I have reported this some time ago. According to the comments, it seems it will be fixed in F45.
Thank you for filing this.