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Switch default deliverable method from RPMs to Flatpaks for Firefox and Thunderbird

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      Renoa first draft:
      Initially, an incomplete preinstallation of Flatpaks for Firefox and Thunderbird on RHEL 10.0 resulted due to limited support in Anaconda and Satellite, leading to issues with default email applications upon installation. To rectify this, comps were updated to preinstall Thunderbird as a Flatpak on RHEL and an RPM from CentOS Stream was used for the default installation of Firefox. This fix will enable PostgreSQL 18 to be preinstalled on RHEL 10.2 for smoother cloud database migrations, while enhancing Thunderbird's installation and update process by being delivered as a Flatpak by default on RHEL systems in the subsequent release.
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      Renoa first draft: Initially, an incomplete preinstallation of Flatpaks for Firefox and Thunderbird on RHEL 10.0 resulted due to limited support in Anaconda and Satellite, leading to issues with default email applications upon installation. To rectify this, comps were updated to preinstall Thunderbird as a Flatpak on RHEL and an RPM from CentOS Stream was used for the default installation of Firefox. This fix will enable PostgreSQL 18 to be preinstalled on RHEL 10.2 for smoother cloud database migrations, while enhancing Thunderbird's installation and update process by being delivered as a Flatpak by default on RHEL systems in the subsequent release.
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      RHEL 10.0 was planned to be released with Firefox and Thunderbird shipping by default as Flatpaks, but there were still some missing pieces wrt. Flatpak related features, Anaconda wasn't able to preinstall RHEL Flatpaks and support for Flatpaks in Satellite was not complete as well. All the major issues are already resolved or will be resolved for 10.2. To switch the default deliverable method we have to update comps with the following example:

            <rhel_only><packagereq type="optional">redhat-flatpak-preinstall-thunderbird</packagereq></rhel_only>
      <centos_only><packagereq type="optional">thunderbird</packagereq></centos_only>

      where on RHEL a Flatpak will be used for Thunderbird and an RPM will be used on CentOS Stream as there are no CentOS Stream Flatpaks.

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              tpopela@redhat.com Tomas Popela
              tpopela@redhat.com Tomas Popela
              Tomas Popela Tomas Popela
              Petr Schindler Petr Schindler
              Lucie Varakova Lucie Varakova
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