Portability and security of snaps - Was: Question about Snaps

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mo, 2016-10-10 at 11:20 -0400, Peter Silva wrote:
> 
> 
> Here's a puzzle:  There are lots of cases where there is a case of
> non-hard dependencies (not necessary to work) but adding
> functionality
> when included.  taking a look at libreoffice... The "recommends"
> dependency list is a mile long and apt-cache show libreoffice,
> indicates about two dozen packages that are optional, but provide
> enhanced functionality.   Examples:
> java-6-jre, iceweasel, gstreamer, lib-sane...
> 
> So will the snap for libreoffice contain firefox and java ?   Will
> that add a little to the size of the package?

no, there are interfaces the libreoffice snap can use ... 

feel free to ask on the snapcraft ML about details, our libreoffice
maintainers are on there too ...

ciao
	oli
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