Re: future of apt on Ubuntu?
Deb and rpm are just install files, run script, they will always be easy.
Snap restricts what you can do, so it will always be a ballache to package them because you have to rewrite the app with snap in mind.
And Ubuntu change the rules. Something possible with Snap one day becomes impossible the next, ruled by Canonical in the same way Apple decide what is possible in an app.
I tried an early snap and the next version made what I was doing impossible so I learned by getting burned early.
There is no benefit to users or devs of Snap. It's just pain. The benefit is to Ubuntu. You don't need root for some things with Snap, which is Ubuntu's wet dream because then they can own root like Apple do. But no Linux Desktop user will ever want that. And no dev either.
Why voluntarily put yourself in an Ubuntu jail? when packaging with debs is so easy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
