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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

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[snap] Why isn't it official?

Hi there,

it's just out of curiosity - I didn't find any official stance on the topic or any information why snap isn't in the official repositories. Is there any information I couldn't find?

It's really a non-issue but only curiosity, the only thing I use which isn't in official repos is spotify which I use as flatpak (instead of aur), though, the non-availibility of snap made me curious as many other distributions support it officially.

//STi

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Hund

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

I don't think it's so much about why they don't care about it, as it is about why they should care about it?

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fukawi2

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

Well I can't find any actual statistics for the Snap Store, but the AUR has 72,064 packages. I doubt the Snap Store has that many packages available... So why would a distribution aimed at competent/experienced Linux users need Snaps when we have the AUR.

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

The usual reply - if no TU/developer is interested in maintaining something, it's not in the repos.

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Padsworth

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

Snap solves a problem that arch doesn't really have. On top of that it's pretty controversial, and the people who use arch aren't really the type to be into snaps.

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Trilby

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

Snap solves a problem that arch doesn't really have.

I think the fact that it causes problems problems that arch doesn't have is also a pretty good reason for it to not be supported.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-01-06 17:54:03)

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Re: [snap] Why isn't it official?

Possibly relevant: http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/

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