On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications
as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there could be incompatibilities with system
libraries.
Well, someone still has to create the "snappy" packages, correct? I don't see how the fact that applications can be
containerized speeds up the process. One could point out that the fact each application is isolated that removes
some of the burden from the packager to check requisites and dependencies - however what you get is duplication of
libraries - with each application living in it's own little world. I don't see how that ensures that distributed packages are
newer. If anything, it takes more disk space with applications potentially running old versions of libraries because the
developers didn't want to invest the effort to upgrade their application to be compatible with the latest version. Case in
point, java apps which require specific java versions.
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