Question about Snaps

[Chris]

On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 21:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:41:26 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2016-10-08 at 08:13 -0600, Compdoc wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Every couple of months I hear about snaps, as with your email,
> > > and I
> > > have a look at it to see if I can find something useful for it.
> > > 
> > > But haven't found anything yet. If I can ask, what do you use it
> > > for?
> > > 
> > >   
> > I have wallpaperdownloader, Blender and PencilSheep installed.
> > Wallpaperdownloader is great as the name says, it downloads
> > wallpapers.
> > The author is very supportive and is currently working on adding a
> > wallpaper changer to it. I haven't messed with the other two yet
> > however.
> Hi Chris,
> 
> IIUC Compdoc wants to know, why you are using snaps, instead of
> "regular" packages. At least Blender is available by the official
> repositories, there's no need to install it by a snap. IOW what are
> the
> advantages for you to install it by a snap?
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
Hi Ralf, I guess I misunderstood the question. The below is from the ht
tp://snapcraft.io/ webpage:

"A snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its
dependencies, and a description of how it should safely be run on your
system, especially the different ways it should talk to other software.

Most importantly snaps are designed to be secure, sandboxed,
containerised applications isolated from the underlying system and from
other applications. Snaps allow the safe installation of apps from any
vendor on mission critical devices and desktops."

Some keywords are 'an application with its dependencies', 'secure,
sandboxed, containerized', 'isolated from the underlying system and
other applications'. 

Some other key elements of Snaps

"Snaps are faster to install, easier to create, safer to run, and they
update automatically and transactionally so your app is always fresh
and never broken."

Compdoc, I hope this answers your question. You may want to check out
the snapcraft.io page and for a listing of snaps https://uappexplorer.c
om/apps?type=snappy

HTH

Chris

> 
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