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A distro-independent avenue for distribution could be important, but surely we can do better than snapd.
by bccdee 6y ago
A distro-independent avenue for distribution could be important, but surely we can do better than snapd.
- floatingatoll 6y agoHave we done better, or is snapd the best option for their needs as of today?
- akvadrako 6y agoSnapd is not a solution to anything. It might be distro-agnostic, but it's tied to Canonical. The server is closed source and the client doesn't support multiple servers.
- lokedhs 6y agoFlatpak, probably. I'm not saying Flatpak is great, but it's the best we have, in my opinion. That said, having published one application on Flathub, packaging Flatpak is not a great experience, especially when the two major repositories: Flathub and Fedora both use two completely different build processes.
- floatingatoll 6y agoIs Flatpak better than snapd, if we set aside that one is ‘open’ and one is ‘closed’ and evaluate them by the merits of their functionality in service of the goal?
- bccdee 6y agoYeah flatpak is much more mature, as I understand it.
- JetSpiegel 6y agoAppImage? I don't see the need for much sandboxing, since certbot requires to have the keys to the kingdom anyway. systemd can whitelist a single folder for certbot to have write permissions.