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   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Ray Hughes wrote:   
   > I wonder, does anyone know what Linus thinks of Snaps   
   > if he thinks of them at all.   
      
   Ha.  LT is unhappy w/ 'everything' (related to packaging) which of   
   course includes snaps.  He's sorta source oriented. (last link)   
      
   At the risk of my getting beat up again for having an opinion and being   
   a 'narcist', my preferred packing is a .deb for the version of Ub repo/s   
   I use for my Mint everyday driver.   
      
   *BUT* I acknowledge that the .deb packaging is a major 'breach' of the   
   ideas of unifying packaging around 'one' type of package, and the   
   'expectation' that dev/s should 'have to' satisfy all of the 'myriad'   
   different packaging schemes is 'terrible'.   
      
   And, I think Snaps are one of the *worst* solutions.  I think it would   
   be 'nice' if there were some kind of middle ground that made it simple   
   to be able to use such as a flatpak or appimage instead of having to go   
   'all the way back' to source, so that it would be easier than compiling   
   from source to 'derive' a 'fatter' package into a .deb or .rpm or whichever.   
      
      
   >  The earliest packaging tool, written by Ian Murdock and called dpkg,   
   created a package in a Debian-specific binary format, and could be used later   
   to unpack and install the files in the package.   
      
   > At about this time some debate arose between members of the project -- some   
   felt that the Debian-specific format created by dpkg-deb should be dropped in   
   favor of the format produced by the ar program. After several revised file   
   formats and    
   correspondingly-revised packaging tools, the ar format was adopted   
      
   https://docs.huihoo.com/debian/manuals/project-history/ch-detailed.en.html   
      
   https://thenewstack.io/canonicals-snap-great-good-bad-ugly/ Canonical’s   
   Snap: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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