[arch-general] snapcraft.io IMO gets across the message that snaps are appropriate for Arch Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:08:48 +0100, Tinu Weber wrote:
>Snaps (and other applications like pip, gems, cabal, docker, ...) do
>have capabilities to install additional data to the system. But they do
>not interfere with pacman's package/software infrastructure like AUR
>helpers and pacman wrappers do.
>
>I don't like the idea behind this "universal package manager" approach
>either, but from a strictly technical point of view, it is no different
>than any of aforementioned tools. What they install may not be
>supported by the community/maintainers, but the tools themselves are.

An excerpt from
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-October/287739.html

ogra at 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-users at lists.ubuntu.com
  From: ogra at 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
                 ^^^^
                 ^^^^