Re:Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
by agentx3r on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:45PM
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Disclaimer, I like the snap packaging format, and I'm not familiar with the history of launchpad.
Operationally:
- I can trivially host and control my own apt repository, either as a mirror of some upstream repository, or with bespoke packages.
- I can't do the same with snaps.
So launchpad and snap store isn't quite apples-to-apples. It would help of course if a snap store could be statically hosted or re-implemented, but the full API is quite complex.
Operationally:
- I can trivially host and control my own apt repository, either as a mirror of some upstream repository, or with bespoke packages.
- I can't do the same with snaps.
So launchpad and snap store isn't quite apples-to-apples. It would help of course if a snap store could be statically hosted or re-implemented, but the full API is quite complex.