On 17/02/2023 00:48, winnie hw wrote:
When both snapd and apt sources are available, which one should I choose for package installation? Though I found the package versions in snapd are a bit newer than apt.
With snapd you do not have full control when an application is updated. The daemon decides it for you. It may matter during debugging of some issue. Attempt to reproduce it in a clean environment may fail because on latest version is available in snap.
With apt it is possible to setup a custom mirror, e.g. apt-cacher-ng proxy. A proxy for snap must be registered in Canonical and requires network connection to their repository.
When some application is packaged for Linux distributions it is easier to rebuild it with a custom patch. I suspect that a developer distributing a snap package may use specific and not well documented build environment.
