Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 20:38 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

If I have two snap packages installed on my computer, and they use the same libraries, don't I wind up with duplicate libraries (and hence wasted space?)

This starts to get troublesome, especially with this SMR crap that's starting to take hold....after installing a "snap-ful" operating system, I guess the data is going to end up near the end of the SMR disk, which is exactly where it shouldn't be....

Maybe a bit far-fetched, but I get troubled when environments start getting bloated.

Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Posted Jul 9, 2020 21:28 UTC (Thu) by simosx (guest, #24338) [Link]

Snap packages share a "core" image. You can see it when you run "snap list". "core" is the Ubuntu 16.04 runtime, "core18" is the Ubuntu 18.04 runtime. As long as the library is found in the core image, it is shared among all snap packages.

If the snap package is a GUI application that is based on GNOME, then it will be using one of the GNOME images, such as "gnome-3-28-1804". Again, anything in this common image is shared among any snap package that is based on this image.

Finally, any other library has to be "staged" into the snap package in order to be included. Here, you may have repetition.
However, in most cases, the important libraries will be found in the "core" image, or the "gnome" image.