On Friday, 10 February 2017 at 16:37:13 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Snaps-v-Flatpaks-Linux-Distros
Please don't ask me to read that dreadful, dreadful website :-\
I have read the blogpost that article summarizes. My own
feelings are:
* short term up-to-dateness of snapd is probably something that
will
sort itself out in good time
* the 'centralization' of the Ubuntu snap store (which serves
all
snap users on all distros) isn't really true, but inasmuch as
it
is a thing, it's an asset: one place of delivery for all snap
users, a bunch of automated security checking guaranteed on
every
upload, no burden to host one's own repository or for the
user to
need to know about multiple repos ... compare with the flatpak
website where every highlighted download is coming from a
different
site
Basically: snaps provide an easy way to define a package that can
reach a lot of developers, now, with minimal infrastructural
effort required. That seems a worthwhile investment to me.
