On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Gentoo support for Snap is roughly as "official" as RedHat/Fedora support. > > See also > https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/ > > Quoting from there: > "The sum total of communication between Canonical and Fedora before the > release of this press release was that they mailed us asking about the process > of packaging snappy for Fedora, and we told them about the main packaging > process and COPR. They certainly did not in any way inform Fedora that they > were going to send out a press release strongly implying that Fedora, along > with every other distro in the world, was now a happy traveler on the Snappy > bandwagon."
By a Gnome dev on fedora-devel@: <begin> Just for the record... the Softpedia article doesn't actually say "Canonical state that they have been working with Fedora developers to make this the universal packaging format." It does say they've been "working for some time with developers from various major GNU/Linux distributions" and that "the Snap package format is working natively on popular GNU/Linux operating systems like [...] Fedora [...]," so it's clear why there was confusion, but it doesn't say that they've been working with Fedora specifically. </end> There's one thing that's not addressed in the marketing and that's Snap's are secure on Ubuntu because it uses AppArmor - and I've read a post that said that they've patched AppArmor specifically to contain Snaps better but I can't find that reference.
