<html><head></head><body><div><br></div><div>First, a short history. Snapcraft's debian package install feature was born somewhat out of deb2snap. In there it grabs all of the packages and dependencies, and then it excludes all that packages that are already included in Ubuntu Core. The list of packages in Ubuntu core is listed at image build time:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/daily-preinstalled/current/xenial-preinstalled-core-amd64.manifest">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/daily-preinstalled/current/xenial-preinstalled-core-amd64.manifest</a></div><div><br></div><div>Then in Snapcraft that is cleaned up a bit and included here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/blob/master/snapcraft/manifest.txt">https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/blob/master/snapcraft/manifest.txt</a></div><div><br></div><div>It seems that list is longer than what we actually want to promise to Snap developers that they can access. But, as far as I can tell, we don't have a definitive list of what we're promising to be provided by the OS Snap.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm proposing making the list this, but would like further input on the list. Note that some things are there just to avoid having snaps include them, like the manpages, because of a dep in a package.</div><div><br></div><pre>base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils dash init initscripts libacl1 libapparmor1 libc6 libselinux1 manpages manpages-dev multiarch-support systemd systemd-sysv sysv-rc sysvinit-utils tzdata ubuntu-keyring util-linux </pre><pre><br></pre><div>Anything else to add or remove? You can comment here or on the pull request:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/pull/74/files">https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/pull/74</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div></body></html>