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Snap Removed from Mint

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 09 2020, @06:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the working-behind-your-back dept.

hendrikboom writes:

Linux reviews notes that

The popular Linux Mint operating system has decided to purge the snap package manager from its repositories and forbid installation of it. The motivation for this drastic move is that the upstream Ubuntu Linux distribution Linux Mint is based on will stealthily install snapd and use that to install Chromium from the Canonical-controlled SnapCraft instead of installing a regular Chromium package like most users expect.

The Linux Mint blog has this to say about Ubuntu's use of snap to use their chromium package to subvert apt:

You've as much empowerment with this as if you were using proprietary software, i.e. none. This is in effect similar to a commercial proprietary solution, but with two major differences: It runs as root, and it installs itself without asking you.

Is Ubuntu turning evil?

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  • (Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:05PM (3 children)

    by SDRefugee (4477) on Thursday July 09 2020, @08:05PM (#1018796)

    And even if (when) Ubuntu truly jumps the shark, Mint also tracks Debian with their LMDE version. Mint definitely looks to be the way to go... Not to mention
    I think it looks nicer than Ubuntu (using the Cinnamon DE)

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:16PM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 09 2020, @10:16PM (#1018850) Homepage Journal

    Is systemd optional in mint?

    • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Friday July 10 2020, @03:26AM

      by Common Joe (33) <common.joe.0101NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday July 10 2020, @03:26AM (#1018948) Journal

      Not to my knowledge, but, if you like Cinnamon (which is a big thing in Mint), you can install Cinnamon in Devuan. In version 2, it's one of the options you have when installing Devuan. Devuan just came out with version 3 and I assume Cinnamon is in version 3, but I haven't checked it out yet.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @01:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @01:11PM (#1019044)

      It's optional in Debian too. However, Debian allows all its other components to place hard dependencies on systemd components, thereby making it de-facto compulsory.

      But happily, the elogind package from AntiX ships with an API-compatible libsystemd.so, thereby allowing pretty much anything from Debian (even Wayland) to run smoothly without systemd. But by then it's called AntiX.