Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by ajross on Saturday May 02, 2020 @03:44PM
(#23054345)
> IMO Docker and containers in general are deployment tools, not packaging systems
Obviously it sits at the boundary, but a "Dockerfile" is (at least when properly used) a recipe for reliably reproducing a specific version of software packaged in a format that can be deployed to all sorts of systems with absolutely minimal dependence on host configuration.
That's what people who want a "mission critical Snap" almost certainly want.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it
by mrweasel on Saturday May 02, 2020 @12:51PM
(#23053015)
LXD is a weird one, it doesn't seem that suitable for distribution as a snap in the first place. The filesystem become a magical bundle of weirdness when you use the snap version. Also LXD is something I’m not that happy to have auto updating, I would like to roll it out to a test, preprod or staging environment first.
To me snaps seems like a desktop solution that Ubuntu forgot to disable on the server edition.
That combined with Ubuntu forcing snaps as the main packaging method (i.e. you have to jump through various hoops to install .debs of snaps) is what a lot of the outrage about.
(Side note: Something about listing Docker as a packaging mechanism makes me uncomfortable. IMO Docker and containers in general are deployment tools, not packaging systems)