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I tried not to interpret the article in the worst possible way, but I failed, it feels disingenuous to me. I don't think comparing ppa's to snaps is a good com

I tried not to interpret the article in the worst possible way, but I failed, it feels disingenuous to me. I don't think comparing ppa's to snaps is a good comparison. ppa's have the disadvantage of potential dependency problems which might break things like upgrades, and that has nothing to do with having a distributed store. snaps solve this and that has nothing to do with a proprietary single company controlled store.

galgalesh 6y ago
I'm sorry you feel this is disingenuous. I really tried to explain why there is only one Snap Store from a neutral point of view. Let me know if you have any tips to make it more genuine. You are right that this has nothing to do with the dependency problems Snap solves. Snap does many things differently but this article only focusses on one to keep it relatively short. This article doesn't try to present a comprehensive comparison and definitely not between Snap and PPA. The article only focuses on the question why there is only one Snap store. The answer to this question has nothing to do with Snap bundling dependencies. I also wrote a separate blog post about bundling dependencies here: https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpak/ https://merlijn.sebrechts.be/blog/2020-07-06-why-snap-flatpa... That blogpost lumps Snap and Flatpak together since, for the sake of bundling dependencies, the two technologies are pretty similar.