Question about Snaps

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 16:13:29 -0500, Chris wrote:
>Some keywords are 'an application with its dependencies', 'secure,
>sandboxed, containerized'

Several security experts consider them as less secure. If everything
links against the same library version, it's easy to keep track with
vulnerabilities, https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/ , if several snaps use
different releases of the same library, it becomes a mess.

For a desktop computer there seems to be no advantage when using snaps.
Since Ubuntu provides LTS releases, snaps theoretically could work
around issues, if new software is required, but then OTOH to chose a
LTS is wrong in the first place. Perhaps a rolling release distro would
be the better way to go, if new software is more important, than the
advantages of a LTS release.

Communication among different apps is an issue, if each app runs inside
its own sandbox/container alike thingy, let alone that until
now permissions to use hardware could be tricky, too.

IOW some of us consider snaps either due to the state of development or
in general as bad.

Regards,
Ralf