On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:38 AM Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how secure (safe, not malware, spyware, etc.) is Snaps?
>> Please see below.  Certain applications that are not available for EL but
>> from other distros, particularly Ubuntu, evidently can be installed via
>> Snaps.  Epel is a standard EL repo, but Snaps is not.
>>
>
> Never heqrd of them. This does not bode well. "Containerized packages"
> hints that they're docker based and will "solve packaging" sounds like...
> somebody reading Ayn Rand, or Karl Marx, and htinks they learned economics.
> Having actually packaged and configured various software, I'm deeply
> usspicious that they did the easy part and sell that.

I tried snaps briefly on a home Ubuntu (19.04 IIRC) machine.
I don't remember whether then were docker or singularity, but 
they definitely were containers and each "package" was a file that
was (loop-back?) mounted under /snap (or /snaps).

However I had to abandon them almost immediately as they didn't
support my particular home directory. For possibly good reasons
homedirs have to be /home/<username> and not symbolic links.
(For reasons of dual boot and having added a second disk my home dir was a 
sym-link).
That struck me as a potentially significant limitation for institutional 
use: in my experience automounters often result in sym-linked homedirs.

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