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Fully agreed!<br>
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Main advantage I would see with snap is that it is supposed to be distro independent and that it possibly is easier with packages for different GRASS versions in parallel (again I do not have any experience with packaging).
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Cheers, <br>
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Stefan <br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Moritz Lennert <mlennert@club.worldonline.be><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:06:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Stefan Blumentrath; Markus Neteler<br>
<b>Cc:</b> GRASS user list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [GRASS-user] Install GRASS stable and experimental in parallel</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 13/03/18 09:30, Stefan Blumentrath wrote:<br>
> Hi Moritz,<br>
> <br>
> (warming this post up again ...).<br>
> <br>
> I see your point!<br>
> And I am aware, that dependencies might be changed in development versions. QGIS has some nightly builds e.g. with ubuntugis dependencies.<br>
> <br>
> Maybe snap could be useful? There does not seem to be a snap for GRASS yet:<br>
> <a href="https://snapcraft.io/search?q=grass">https://snapcraft.io/search?q=grass</a><br>
> <br>
> If you guys think this is of interest, I could have a look at it in Bonn (and maybe join forces with QGIS project if the relevant people for the QGIS snap [1,2] are in Bonn too).<br>
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I didn't know snap, but somehow, I have the feeling that with Docker, <br>
snap, etc we are going back to a world where each software package <br>
installs each of its dependencies separately, leading to the same <br>
library being installed multiple times on one machine. I guess cheap <br>
disk space and containerization makes this a bit less of a problem, but <br>
it still just does not feel right when you come from the beautiful world <br>
of coordinated packaging in Debian and others distros.<br>
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:-)<br>
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Moritz<br>
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