best ways to find and remove unneeded packages/snaps and...

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>> Yeah. Come to think of it, it's been sloppy once in the past for
>> me, too. Here are my notes from when that happened on how to clean
>> it up , with "foo" being used as the example Snap name that we're
>> cleaning up:

>This is one of the biggest design failures with snap: it did not
>integrate with existing native tools like Apt.

I believe that was by design. It's not supposed to be part of
something, but rather a stand-alone tool that keeps to itself.

>So the simple 1-click update was replaced with a multi-step process.
> All of a sudden users needed to be taught a different process after
> about 20 years.  It was a step or two backwards for security.

This doesn't surprise me, not because of the company it's about, but
because we see a lot of that sort of pseudo-improvement nowadays.
It's change for change's sake instead of to make something
genuinely more useful, efficient, helpful, etc. That can't help but
come at the price of a negative experience for the end-user
and a backwards step for the development of the programs.

I don't think that's what we saw here, though. The Snap program can't
know what you intend to do if you hold it back from keeping previous
versions of Snaps as backups, so it politely keeps them for you in
case you need them again. This causes a situation where those of us
who don't want them have to do manual cleanup. That's what I had
encountered back when I had changed that setting.

-- 
Little Girl

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