On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:53 PM, José Maldonado <[email protected]> wrote: > > The last days, ArsTechnica publish this new: > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/goodbye-apt-and-yum-ubuntus-snap-apps-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere/ > > "Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, > Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu," > Canonical's announcement says. "They are currently being validated on > CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are > easy to enable on other Linux distributions." (Ubuntu will continue to > support deb packages, but developers can choose to package > applications as snaps instead of or in addition to debs.)" > > Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? Why not Flatpak?
When I first saw this, I thought "strange, maybe if Gentoo develops an 'esnap' in order to build the container-package locally" but then I remembered that we have docker and lxc/lxd, so why not another method? When Flatpak's ready, someone'll make it available and/or package it. [AFAIK, Flatpak's for GUI apps accessed via Gnome Software so it's not quite a Snap competitor.]
