[ubuntu-studio-devel] Some thoughts, frustrations, and considerations.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:09:33 -0700, Hank Stanglow wrote:
>growing emphasis on Snaps

It's just a growing hype from a minority of Ubuntu developers
involved in snap development.

"Search thousands of snaps used by millions of people across 50 Linux
distributions"

https://snapcraft.io/store

There's a reason for the missing pro-audio software, due to the
container approach, it requires special interfaces to e.g. share the
sound server by different apps.


https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install

Which are those 50 distros?

Arch isn't one of those, it's a misleading claim!


https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install-arch-linux

The installation instructions are horrible!


"Warning: AUR helpers are not supported by Arch Linux." -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers

"Arch Linux related mailing lists and other official Arch Linux support
channels aren't an appropriate place to request help with snaps on Arch
Linux." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd#Support


That something is "available", in the case of Arch Linux by something
comparable to a PPA, doesn't mean that it's supported, or that the
distro even supports the desired infrastructure.

From the PKGBUILD's ./configure: "--disable-apparmor" -
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=snapd

But even if you stay with Ubuntu and snaps, it's not easy to use it for
pro-audio software, if possible at all.