From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Marco Moock wrote:   
   > schrieb stepore:   
   >   
   >> I hate snaps as much as the next guy, but snaps are _not_ mandatory.   
   >> Hell, you can even remove the entire snap underpinnings.   
   >   
   > True, but packages like chromium or firefox aren't available via apt   
   > anymore and there is no real reason for that.   
   > I assume Canonical wants to make users use snap.   
   >   
   Also anti-snap here...   
      
   I think Canonical's 'view' is that:   
     - Canonical uses its own repo/s 'derived' from Deb's, but not Deb's   
     - they think Snaps 'solves' the burdensome problems of maintaining   
   canonical packages for 'all kinds' of canonical stuff, and even that in   
   some ways snaps are 'better'   
     - Canonical has been guilty before of mistaking what is better and   
   what isn't, maybe Unity comes to mind; sorta better but not really,   
   depending on one's POV   
     - Mint does a good/excellent job of both following in Ub's/Canonical's   
   'footsteps' and in Deb's while still marching to their own drummers   
      
   So, while I'm sympathetic to the Canonical view, I reject it in favor of   
   the Mint view.   
      
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   Mike Easter   
      
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