Am 16.06.2016 um 10:49 schrieb Eric Schirra:
Am 2016-06-16 10:16, schrieb stakanov@freenet.de:
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. This is the point. It is cheaper and maximize my profit. The problems have other. Yes. It is brain damage to have an application packaged together with all it's libraries. It wastes space and if there are multiple copies of a library, the snap package providers are responsible for updating them, especially for security updates. Most companies are very lazy in updating. Look at the android update situation. So i can shortly use Windows. I have counted 16 copies of Qt5Core.dll on my Windows machine, for example. Here we see how space is wasted on Windows. Additionally there are multiple copies of runtime libraries of diverse MSVC-Versions and .net-Versions and much more.
If we repeat that on openSUSE systems we and our users will pay, buying faster, larger machines. snap is at best acceptable for very large applications with many dependencies (Office suits, CAD systems and so on). For smaller tools it is overkill. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org