On 02/09/2017 01:04 AM, Didier Roche wrote:
> Ok, sorry for the catchy email title but couldn't resist :)
> 
> So, I'm in the situation where one snap would need to get configuration
> and access to some files from other snaps. It's really similar to our
> plugin story: even if in that case, we are talking about optional
> configuration and files from one or multiple snaps shared with a single
> one collecting them all.
> 
> I can see 2 options in the snapd philosophy:
> 
> - Content sharing. Sounds like it matches exactly the purpose of it.
> However, even disregarding the manual connection that will be needed, we
> are stuck on the fact that it's limited to one connection for a given
> slot. If I want to share configuration and files from 3 snaps to the
> master one, I can't do 3 times:
> $ snap connect snap1:config my-master-snap:config
> $ snap connect snap2:config my-master-snap:config
> $ snap connect snap2:config my-master-snap:config
> 
> One way would be to create different slot names:
> $ snap connect snap1:config my-master-snap:config1
> $ snap connect snap2:config my-master-snap:config2
> $ snap connect snap2:config my-master-snap:config3
> 
> But this doesn't help on the ease of use (the notice is then for people
> "find the first available slot"… Not really user-friendly) nor in the
> scalibity (fixed number of slots…)

Does https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1655125 cover this case?

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