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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by WhyNotHugo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:10PM (#36623872)
It’s a proprietary package management system (only the client part is open source, so it’s kinda MSFT-style open source).

The obvious answer is: vendor lock in. Once Ubuntu is snap-only you won’t be able to host your own package repositories, since it’s their secret code.

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by rlpb on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:53PM (#36624392)
The package hosting protocol is relatively trivial. I believe a couple of alternative implementations have been written, but I'm not sure they're maintained because there's no point. Anyone can publish to the Snap Store. Because snaps are sandboxed at the client end, there's no gate except automated checks.
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