Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

2016-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Tom H wrote: >> The first that I heard of snaps being available on non-Ubuntu systems >> was on the fedora-devel@ list where the poster floated the idea of >>

Fwd: Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

2016-06-20 Thread Hans Kristian Rosbach
On 06/18/2016 08:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: I'm extremely leery of any system that tries to "bundle all the system tools" to run packages. It might be usable for containers, but it presents real library and package management problems for deployed such working environments. The approach is

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

2016-06-17 Thread Max Linke
On 06/17/2016 11:45 PM, Pat Riehecky wrote: On 06/17/2016 04:40 PM, Andrew Z wrote: I understand it is very lame to refer to a technical article on cio.com . and yet I'll try :) http://www.cio.com/article/3085079/linux/goodbye-rpm-and-deb-hello-snaps.html I never heard of

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

2016-06-17 Thread Pat Riehecky
On 06/17/2016 04:40 PM, Andrew Z wrote: I understand it is very lame to refer to a technical article on cio.com . and yet I'll try :) http://www.cio.com/article/3085079/linux/goodbye-rpm-and-deb-hello-snaps.html I never heard of it and just wonder how much of real value is

Snap - the better,higher,faster etc

2016-06-17 Thread Andrew Z
I understand it is very lame to refer to a technical article on cio.com. and yet I'll try :) http://www.cio.com/article/3085079/linux/goodbye-rpm-and-deb-hello-snaps.html I never heard of it and just wonder how much of real value is in this new system.