On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 11:14:37 +0200, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: >Also, something to be aware of, is that snaps are built by the upstream >or vendor, not by the distribution.
First of all, happy new year! Now to something unpleasant. Using snaps and allowed to ask for support by an official channel of a distribution is bound to a distribution. For example, http://snapcraft.io/ mentions Arch Linux. It's available by Arch repository, but frowned upon by Arch developers, as well as the majority of Arch users, if not by all Arch users. If an Arch user would use snaps, there would be no mailing list available to request help. I suspect not many distributions will help with snaps. There were at least two discussions on the Arch general mailing list. At least Arch Linux doesn't support it and it's very important, that in addition snaps are frowned upon, for a long list of very good reasons. Btw. it would be nice to remove Arch Linux from this list at http://snapcraft.io/ . I will not post links. I would welcome, if Mark would ask for an opinion at https://lists.archlinux.org//listinfo/arch-general and maybe on other distribution's mailing lists. The impression that upstream and vendors will provide snaps for installation on a huge amount of distros is wrong. Perhaps a minority of upstream developers is willing to contribute snaps for Ubuntu. Most common is that upstream supports no packages at all, or a DEB and/or a RPM, e.g. by installing the software to /opt without using shared libraries. Regards, Ralf -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft