On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:58:26PM -0400, ted leslie via talk wrote:
never heard of it until just stumbled across this:
http://betanews.com/2016/06/14/ubuntu-snap-packages-linux-distros-fedora-arc...
If its "good", doesn't it sort of defeat the strength of some distro's whose best attribute is package management, i.e. what folks claim of
arch?
Interesting to see what becomes of it (how much adoption).
Stumbled across it, because its Mint 18 time soon!!!!!!! its like x-mas!
Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. I haven't checked the details that much on it yet.
As long as you don't get your information from the press release: https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-u...