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Re:Snaps are universal Linux packages by jhasse on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:04AM (#13559206)
> RH has actively tried to cripple them

Source?

Snaps require AppArmor which is used by Ubuntu and openSUSE. This makes it harder to integrate Snaps into Red Had (SELinux) distros, but I wouldn't say that this is something RH does actively to cripple them.

Re:Snaps are universal Linux packages by mhall119 on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:00PM (#13562243)
Snaps need a security backend like AppArmor in order to run in confinement. Without it, they can still be run unconfined. And while AppArmor+seccomp is the only working security backend, snapd is designed to support alternate backends, so one could be made for SELinux, we just need someone with SELinux experience to write it (our in-house expertise is in AppArmor)