11-14-2023, 05:36 PM
(11-13-2023, 09:24 PM)Tas_mania Wrote: Thoughts
Ubuntu are using appimages built with the old RockRidge file system to construct new OS's. I think this upends the Unix file structure by creating little unix file systems inside other unix file systems. The Gimp snap is well over 1.2 gb in size. Why does it have to contain so many system files? Script-based packaging can make huge files because all the files have dependencies. Eventually Ubuntu snaps will be dependent on other snaps or each snap will carry most of the system files.
I think the word 'snap' is actually 'secure appimage'. Possibly Ubuntu is trying to be faster than MXLinux which is pretty fast :wonder what Debian makes of all this
I think the benefit of snap (for Ubuntu) it that it avoids dependency problems, since you can have different versions of libraries in the various snaps. The other side of the coin is that if there is a fix for a library you have to fix all the snaps instead of publishing a single fix for the library.