On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 14:40:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > An excerpt from > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-October/287739.html > > o...@ubuntu.com is deeply involved in working on snappy. > ^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:40:32 +0200 > Subject: Re: Question about Snaps > To: ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com > From: o...@ubuntu.com > > [snip] > > snaps are the future in the ubuntu ecosystem (and most likely also in > many others, when looking at the consortium of different distros and > projects that decide on their direction now in the technical oversight > board [1]) [snip] > > > [1] appstream, Arch, debian, elementary, KDE, Ubuntu, VLC, Fedora > ^^^^ > ^^^^
So there is somebody out there claiming that Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora and whoever else will replace their own packaging ecosystem by something like that, and the sensation media is picking it up and spreading it all over the intertubes. So what? All we can do is: * Remove snapd from the repos and piss off everyone. As stated above, there are no technically valid reasons to do so; AL supports it, and it's fine. * Make a "public statement" (who? where?) that AL does not intend to move to snaps in the future. If one thing is dead-sure, it's that Debian will not replace their sophisticated software packaging infrastructure by something like this, but I couldn't find anything resembling a statement by the Debian folks on the web, so I don't think the situation is that severe. Again, this would just be pissing off people, nothing more. * Let them have their little moment of euphoria and see where it goes. Most likely nowhere. The majority of upstream devs will keep on writing software the way they've done so far and let the distribution maintainers do the rest (because that's easier for everyone). As you may have noticed, I vote for option 3 :-) Best, Tinu
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