The problem with those approaches is that they bundle all the dependencies with the application, rather than using the system libraries. That means that if a s

The problem with those approaches is that they bundle all the dependencies with the application, rather than using the system libraries. That means that if a security bug comes out, I need to (e.g. heartbleed), I need to track down every single application, check their version, cross my fingers that they at least used a shared library and didn't build against the static library, and update each one individually. For well-behaved software that uses the system libraries, I only need to update the system library and be done with it. I get that snaps are easier for developers because managing versions can be painful. Pushing that pain onto the users isn't the solution.