[GTALUG] Ubuntu snap

[Michael Hill]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at 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.
>

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-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/
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