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The one thing I'm incredibly worried about is the packaging war starting all over again. There are zero reasons for having multiple packaging formats across liN
by sandGorgon 10y ago
The one thing I'm incredibly worried about is the packaging war starting all over again. There are zero reasons for having multiple packaging formats across liNux distros .
I was hoping that snap or flatpak becomes universally adopted, but it seems that Redhat and Canonical are again split along political fault lines here.
- gurkendoktor 10y agoAs Canonical has moved its focus away from end users, we might end up with a more intuitive split: snaps for the cloud, flatpak for desktop apps?
- sandGorgon 10y agonot really. check this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053627 We're engaging with dozens of major vendors of traditional/proprietary software about delivering their software onto Ubuntu via Snaps -- which is a new packaging format that solves many of the traditional problems associated with proprietary software working well on Linux.
- bkor 10y agoFlatpak purely deals with GUI/desktop applications. Sandboxed, then having a GUI way to break out of the sandbox securely (user interaction). Snaps also allow non-GUI things and Canonical wants to use it as well for cloud (or maybe already are using it). Due to Snap having a different focus, you cannot just drop Snap.