On Tue, Aug 9, 2022, 12:51 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 07:58:57 -0700 > Vince Winter <[email protected]> dijo: > > >The way snap works is snaps apps are self contained images that > >include all the libraries the app needs to run. So it doesn't have to > >worry about dependencies being out of date in exchange for larger size > >foot print on the system. > > How is this different from Appimages? What is the point of mounting > them, why do they have to be mounted? I have several Appimages and they > all run without needing to be mounted. >
It is designed that way. The idea is to isolate it (pretend it is running on the packager's system), but allow it to use host's filesystem, if needed. Hope that explains it, Tomas >
