#help with using spicetify on immutable fedora

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misty vine
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my host is Fedora Kinoite and it tries to modify the client in /var/lib/flatpak which is, probably, not safe for an OSTree system. I always receive this error

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spicetify v2.36.12
info Spicetify up-to-date
info There is available backup.
info Clear current backup:
success Backup is cleared.
Backing up app files:
OK
Extracting:
OK
Preprocessing:
info Fetching remote CSS map for newer compatible tag version: main
OK
OK
success Everything is ready, you can start applying now!
Copying raw assets:
fatal unlinkat /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client/x86_64/stable/active/files/extra/share/spotify/Apps/login.spa: permission denied
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is it really safe to mutate /var/lib/flatpak

wary schooner
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technically you can apply spicetify without mutating the original files by copying them to a different directory and running spotify with the --app-directory=<...> flag. but that's not currently supported

misty vine
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hmm thank you

small schooner
misty vine
small schooner
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You don't modify the whole /var/lib/flatpak

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It's just so spicetify can patch files

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and it's needed so