[GTALUG] Ubuntu snap

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 04:54:30PM -0400, Michael Hill via talk wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> > 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/

Yeah that pretty much matches what I thought was the state of things.

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Len Sorensen