Re:Snaps are universal Linux packages
by dustinkirkland on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:09PM
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Omg! How dare an open source project, led by Canonical, have a "brought to you by Canonical" feeling! That's just awful. Did you know that Canonical also doesn't contribute upstream, and instead uses that time to club baby seals for fun! I seen em!
IMO Flatpak has a pretty "brought to you by GNOME/Fedora" feeling.
GNOME and Fedora are definitely further ahead, since the lead developer for Flatpak is a long-time GNOME contributor as well as a Red Hat employee. There are Flatpak contributors focusing on other things: at least two developers are working on KDE integration, and a Debian developer at Collabora maintains the Flatpak package that is currently in Debian testing for release in Debian 9.0.
Even if you look at the terms used : https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/store :
"The main way of distributing snaps to snapd systems is through the Ubuntu Store"
So indeed there is the "other store" section which mention you can host your own store but it's clearly not emphasized.
Even the term of Snap "store" vs Flatpack "repo" seems to indicates a more decentralized/agnostic direction of Flatpack.
On flatpak.org/apps.html you can see LibreOffice hosted by documentfoundation.org and MonoDevelop hosted by mono-project.com. They're not all hosted by their respective foundation/website, but still it kinda seems like it is the direction flatpack is pushing for.
So "technically" they all are distro-agnostic, but in terms of distribution system one is pushing for a centralized Canonical-hosted store while the other seems to be going towards a "each foundation will host their app"