> dpkg showed it wasn't installed, but it was listening due to their horrible sidecar "snap" package system. Oh no, there are two distribution-mandated package

> dpkg showed it wasn't installed, but it was listening due to their horrible sidecar "snap" package system. Oh no, there are two distribution-mandated package managers on my system but I refuse to acknowledge the existence of the second one because it offends my sensibilities. Well, add another step to your Ansible template, I guess: "apt autoremove --purge snapd && apt-mark hold snapd".