Portability and security of snaps - Was: Question about Snaps

[Chris]

On Sun, 2016-10-09 at 20:56 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On So, 2016-10-09 at 20:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:04:26 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > you also forgot to change the mailing list, lets please take this
> > > to
> > > the snapcraft list if you want to go on ....
> > No, while I agree that users could use snaps, I guess mentioning on
> > this list, that the old faithful official Ubuntu DEB repositories
> > have
> > advantages over snaps is very important.
> well, exactly the opposite is the case, debs give the maintainer of
> the
> package full root access to your system ... while debs from the
> ubuntu
> archive might be trustworthy to some extend for the set of supported
> debs, there is the whole universe archive where most packages get
> just
> synced from debian (or even other sources), only snaps solve this
> problem in a clean and safe way...
> 
> so please stop saying that debs are having advantages. 
> while being a different type of fish, they do not have advantages in
> many areas (security, dependencies, painful to package, not portable
> etc) and a big amount of canonical developers has worked hard over
> the
> last few years to solve these issue by implementing snaps.
> 
> snaps *will* replace debs in many high level app areas on Ubuntu,
> *especially* on the desktop. 
> 
> telling people to not use them is not helpful or constructive,
> telling
> people to use them and file bugs to find remaining possible drawbacks
> is though.
> 
I've been using Linux since the Mandrake 9 days. Before snaps when
installing an application I'd quite often run into dependencies
problems where either I'd need a lib => Foo.1 or lib => Foo.1 and Bar.2
and so forth. That is the main reason I like snaps, everything is
there, no libs to search for and attempt to install and FWIW I run a
desktop, have as I said above for many years. 

Just my 2cents

Chris

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