Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 0:15 UTC (Thu) by gouldtj (guest, #48027)
Parent article: Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Hard to imagine Mint lasting more than a year or two with this strategy. Once they have to maintain several of these large user visible packages on their own, they'll either rethink the tradeoffs or get consumed by them. It is, quite simply, a lot of work.

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 0:45 UTC (Thu) by adam820 (subscriber, #101353) [Link]

...or switch to primarily promoting flatpak as the preferred bundle format.

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 1:02 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> Once they have to maintain several of these large user visible packages on their own, they'll either rethink the tradeoffs or get consumed by them. It is, quite simply, a lot of work.

If it was all done from scratch, yes but is there a reason they can't simply build off work that has been done in Debian and use Flatpak for the rest?

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 1:12 UTC (Thu) by kokada (guest, #92849) [Link] (1 responses)

They could also change bases, for example using Debian instead of Ubuntu (they actually have a Debian based version, but this one is a rolling release I think?).

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 18:28 UTC (Thu) by mockturtl (guest, #140072) [Link]

> rolling release

Not for a few years. It's based on debian stable (plus backports), with rolling updates for their own packages (mostly desktop-related).