> snapd itself is distributed as a snap, which seems like a very poor idea to me I took this as a "vote of confidence" that snap could self-host snapd. Hostin

> snapd itself is distributed as a snap, which seems like a very poor idea to me I took this as a "vote of confidence" that snap could self-host snapd. Hosting via snap means they can push updates and not have to wait for users to `apt update; apt upgrade`, as snaps auto-upgrade without user intervention. I don't know of other benefits, though.