Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
 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@:


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.


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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages?

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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> 
> Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? Why not Flatpak?
> 

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."

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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