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Re:Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardiz... by prepperdev on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:51PM (#25816971)
snaps are tied to the proprietary Ubuntu store and they are not available on all of the Linux flavors. For instance, I don't see snapd on Alpine Linux:

  $apk search snapd
  $
Not cool, I think.
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Re:Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardiz... by lstamour on Sunday January 17, 2021 @10:50PM (#25817900)
An alpine Linux core dev appears to maintain the alpine package for Certbot. I don’t see it being deprecated anytime soon.

The snap is very different and relies on systemd which isn’t commonly found in Alpine.

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