Linux Mint dumps Ubuntu Snap
The popular desktop Linux distribution, Linux Mint, wants nothing to do with Ubuntu's Snap software installation system.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.So is snap Ubuntu's version of the Arch User Repository?
ScubaWags
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June 6, 2020
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I had to look-up AUR. No, don't think so. The purpose/goal of snap is to 'compartmentalize' an app and its libraries in sort-of a self contained unit.
@FearlessFly self contained like a sandbox?
@ScubaWags I don't think so. Since I try to avoid snap, I don't know all the details.
You would think by now that the Linux community could have come together to standardize those very important locations that programs depend upon. Or, at least, a standardized method for programs to figure out those locations for any distribution, say... via the 'locate' command, which as far as I know is a standard utility.
But it's more than just location of files, which I've found is usually library locations, it's also sometimes different names for those files. So that too would need to be factored into any kind of standardization. The 'locate' command approach still won't work if it can't find a file(library) because it's named something different in a particular distro.
bingst
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June 6, 2020
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In this case it looks like Canonical is trying to become "in charge" of Chrome 'repositories'.
I don't use Chrome.
I don't want snap.
It is not the FOSS way . . .
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