Snaps to invoke external processes

[Didier Roche]

Le 22/11/2016 à 15:38, Gustavo Niemeyer a écrit :
> The problem is that snapd works in environments where the dependencies
> to make the browser-launcher work aren't available.
>
> The right fix is probably to make it a dependency of one of the debs
> that are always installed on a normal desktop system, whether snapd is
> there or not. It's a very minimal piece of software.

How do you see non ubuntu distro being handled then?

Cheers,
Didier

>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:mark at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 22/11/16 06:46, Didier Roche wrote:
>     > Le 22/11/2016 à 05:43, Spencer Parkin a écrit :
>     >> Well, actually, not unless the customer also installs
>     >> snapd-xdg-open.  Why is it an add-on?  Why not just make it part of
>     >> snapd?
>     >
>     > I gues the idea was to keep it as a separate daemon and have the
>     > implementation which can easily change.
>     > The "why it's not installed by default" was the reason why I CCed
>     > Michael yesterday. I hope he will answer here.
>
>     Seems to me that we want a predictable result for all snap users,
>     otherwise we make installation instructions for snaps
>     unnecessarily complex.
>
>     Mark
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