<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Unless dependencies such as snapd-xdg-open can be named in the yaml, I could show a dialog telling the user that they may need to install it. Naming dependencies of snaps, however, as I understand it, defeats the purpose of snaps as they're supposed to bake all the dependencies into themselves.<br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The only other process I would want to invoke is another instance of my own snap, but that sounds like something a virus would want to do too.</div><div><br>On Nov 22, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Didier Roche <<a href="mailto:didrocks@ubuntu.com">didrocks@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div dir="ltr">The problem is that snapd works in environments
where the dependencies to make the browser-launcher work aren't
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<div>The right fix is probably to make it a dependency of one of
the debs that are always installed on a normal desktop system,
whether snapd is there or not. It's a very minimal piece of
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How do you see non ubuntu distro being handled then?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Mark
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> Le 22/11/2016 à 05:43, Spencer Parkin a écrit :<br>
>> Well, actually, not unless the customer also
installs<br>
>> snapd-xdg-open. Why is it an add-on? Why not
just make it part of<br>
>> snapd?<br>
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> I gues the idea was to keep it as a separate daemon
and have the<br>
> implementation which can easily change.<br>
> The "why it's not installed by default" was the
reason why I CCed<br>
> Michael yesterday. I hope he will answer here.<br>
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</span>Seems to me that we want a predictable result for
all snap users,<br>
otherwise we make installation instructions for snaps
unnecessarily complex.<br>
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