2016-06-16 10:16 GMT+02:00 <stakanov@freenet.de>:
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Carlos E. R. Gesendet: Do. 16.06.2016 02:53 An: OS-fctry , Betreff: Re: [opensuse-factory] Snap packages
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El 2016-06-15 a las 19:53 +0200, Manfred Hollstein escribió:
freedom because of mostly being open source? Why should we then compromise for getting *some* proprietary packages by switching to "snap",
Nobody said "switch to snap".
- -- Cheers Carlos E. R.
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Carlos. Aren't you underestimating the normative power of the industry and the capital here? If you offer it and (although bringing a higher security risk to the user) if it is easier to prepare packages in this format for all distribution, I will simply not offer anything else anymore. Because it is cheaper and, as a result, I maximize my profit. If there are problems with security as a producer of software it is even better: one blame it on the distribution and on the OS. For me that system has a great future. :-)
This isn't the point from my point of view, and I don't speak as an unexperienced user. Now we have one offered a system of easily deploying software to tenths of distributions (snap) and you want to limit the users of them just to use the native deployment system (rpm/deb). This is the same choice like choosing between Libreoffice and Calligra, or between Gentoo, Fedora or OpenSUSE or whatever. This is not just for the industry, but open source software is included. And it is about installing something extra on the top. Some years ago I dealt also with packing (in this case professional) multi-platform software to rpm's and this could not be used a long time due to the dependency hell, while the computers should be rolled out just for one purpose, using our software as front-end. For luck, we have a Java installer for this. For user-space installations, rpm and deb doesn't fit that well and this is where snap steps in, in my opinion. I'd see it this way: If a distribution offers a "clean" package in your terms it should be installed in the recommended manner (rpm/deb). If it doesn't - no way of using it? Compiling? Not the real world for desktop users, but for administrators of server systems, maybe. Let the users decide and if they will be glad it's just fine. That'll be may be some percent more people motivated using Linux. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org