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-arch-mint-opensuse/
>
> 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.