Allegedly, on or about 15 June 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/06/ubuntu-snap-app > s-are-coming-to-distros-everywhere-bye-apt-yum/ > > At first glance this looks really interesting and will be available on > Fedora, though according to the article RedHat haven't yet decided to > support it officially. At first glance, this looks appalling! .... Applications often require a lot of dependencies, making things more complicated, for example, when one application needs one version of another piece of software and a second application needs a different version of that other piece of software "Snap packages solve this problem by creating self-contained packages," we noted in our review of Ubuntu 16.04, which brought snaps to servers and desktops. "With snap packages, applications are installed in their own container, and all the third-party applications are installed with them so there are no version conflicts. Which means some of these things are going to be huge. The point of shared libraries is efficiency. Just wait to you install a dozen things that required Java, for instance, and they all decide that they need to bring in their own, rather than use a system installation. Just because you can buy terabyte drives doesn't mean that you should try to fill them up. I'm still staggered by the massive inefficiencies of modern computing. I now have a gigahertz processor, and it's not a thousand times faster to use the computer than my first PC. And it's not *just* the hard drive speed that's a bottleneck to that. I also have 2 gigs of RAM, and that's not enough. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Linux servers are always being dæmonised... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
