On 15-06-16 15:55, Glenn Holmer wrote:
On 06/15/2016 07:40 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
On 15 June 2016 at 14:25, Glenn Holmer <cenbe@kolabnow.com> wrote:
Oh yes, let's all get on board with The One True Canonical Way. Like upstart, Unity, Mir...
Hey, let's not get all religious about it - people give Canonical a justifiably hard time when they do stuff like Unity and Mira and do not engage with other Projects, we shouldn't be jerks when they DO make an effort to work with us, which they are with this.
But is it a good idea in general (snap, Flatpak, etc.)? I understand the issues it's trying to solve, but how much more disk space will it use? How much bigger will my operating system partition have to be? And how much longer will software installs take?
In terms of disk space please consider the relation between snap and snapper (pun not intended). What if I install 5 snap packages consecutively (which can easily hit 500MB-1GB+) and snapper creates both pre and post snapshots of that?