[Live-demo] Xenial and Snap

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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>   I have two Xenial machines setup for the last month or so.. doing some
> experiments here and there..
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> One thing I did *not* see was the Ubuntu "Snap" packaging format [0]..
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>   well, this blog post [1] shows how Snap is a bad thing from a security
> point of view..
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> I suggest we stay away from Snap packaging..   more on packaging later..
Since we are limited on space, snap is not really a good option as
libraries will be packaged several times (and possibly using more
memory at runtime).

Kind Regards,
Johan