[arch-general] snapcraft

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:25:17 +0100, Zero via arch-general wrote:
>I am looking at the package Joplin to keep my notes in.
>
>Joplin is in the AUR and I assume I can build it but then I need to 
>update it manually when new versions appear.

Consider to use an AUR helper, or to use a
website-changes-monitoring-tool and run your own
non-AUR helper script to automagically build the package.

>As Youri pointed out Flatpak is an alternative but that will run 
>applications in a sandbox.

Snaps are also using kind of a container approach. Whatever the
definition of "sandbox" or "container" and Co is, snaps and flatpacks
follow a similar approach, coming with more or less equal pitfalls.