On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:58:26PM -0400, ted leslie via talk wrote: > > never heard of it until just stumbled across this: > > > > > http://betanews.com/2016/06/14/ubuntu-snap-packages-linux-distros-fedora-arch-mint-opensuse/ > > > > If its "good", doesn't it sort of defeat the strength of some distro's > > whose best attribute is package management, i.e. what folks claim of > arch? > > > > Interesting to see what becomes of it (how much adoption). > > > > Stumbled across it, because its Mint 18 time soon!!!!!!! its like x-mas! > > Well the snap containers do sound interesting. It seems to solve > the problem of having the right library versions for a given task. > Of course I also wonder if this doesn't create the problem of how to > update insecure libraries that distributions tried to solve in the first > place by only having oen shared copy of a given library to update. > Maybe they have some concept of using system libraries for some things. > I haven't checked the details that much on it yet. > As long as you don't get your information from the press release: https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/06/16/on-snappy-and-flatpak-business-as-usual-in-the-canonical-propaganda-department/
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