Snaps is less desirable IMHO because it ties you to Canonical who forces hosting the repository. Security is going to be the same issue you see with appstores in general a la Google or Apple - it kind of depends on the AppStore manager. No idea how good snaps is with that. From a "way I'd like to see things go", I much prefer Appimages - no part of it needs root, and it's completely contained in a single file. But again - anyone can provide an appimage. Next might be flatpacks - Red Hat's answer to snaps, but they don't fix it to their own repository like Canonical does with Snaps - anyone can create and host a flatpack repo. But you still need root to install the flatpack pagage manager?? to then run flatpacks. And you are still trusting whoever provides the repo you use. However, this is much more similar to traditional YUM repos IMHO. -- James Pulver CLASSE Computer Group Cornell University ________________________________________ From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:38 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Snaps 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. Enable snaps on CentOS and install Xournal++ Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__snapcraft.io_store&d=DwMDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=U_9rXUp841lroS3b1I6BqsdWAC2VbH7OW6jZvmufgR4&s=DNKiGAkXvPku8jga4qvfLCfuCm0yglT90PYysjDbwgs&e=>, an app store with an audience of millions. [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__res.cloudinary.com_canonical_image_fetch_f-5Fauto-2Cq-5Fauto-2Cfl-5Fsanitize-2Cw-5F169-2Ch-5F159_https-3A__assets.ubuntu.com_v1_acf876d9-2DDistro-5FLogo-5FCentOS.svg&d=DwIFAw&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=oDDh5zSyczpyoDK_m4vjofmNg1_qgmaerHJ5uVO2KiQ&s=zH1UJBYJdkAqbmnvuFVwQ8M5IFe1Oj5G7Fb0kbH9XRE&e= ] Enable snapd Snap is available for CentOS 7.6+<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__snapcraft.io_install_xournalpp_centos&d=DwMDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=U_9rXUp841lroS3b1I6BqsdWAC2VbH7OW6jZvmufgR4&s=6aJOdsxXdre3JCaGiI2VHJkrIlrmugEVVJ29rrzzgiQ&e=>, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6+, from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fedoraproject.org_wiki_EPEL&d=DwMDaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=U_9rXUp841lroS3b1I6BqsdWAC2VbH7OW6jZvmufgR4&s=d0abLQSs1MMvnuo9AY7kbu0yBXuChcPX0YhPW64_DVE&e=> (EPEL) repository. The EPEL repository can be added to your system with the following command: Thanks for any information. Yasha Karant
