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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: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:31PM (5 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday July 09 2020, @09:31PM (#1018831) Journal

    Free/Net/Open

    Too many choices!

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

  • (Score: 4, Touché) by zoward on Thursday July 09 2020, @11:23PM (4 children)

    by zoward (4734) on Thursday July 09 2020, @11:23PM (#1018872)

    You can never have too many choices.

    • (Score: 5, Interesting) by TheReaperD on Friday July 10 2020, @12:00AM (2 children)

      by TheReaperD (5556) on Friday July 10 2020, @12:00AM (#1018891)

      Developers would strongly disagree! Too much variety in the code-base makes any compile environment absolute hell. It's one of the major reasons why Linux has always had a problem with wide stream adoption: Too many fucking forks!

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      Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit

      • (Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 10 2020, @12:59PM

        by VLM (445) on Friday July 10 2020, @12:59PM (#1019039)

        Ironically, higher level languages don't care much about libc, and all three of the big BSDs OpenFreeNet all use the same BSD-libc, just like macos.

        Also ironically there was SUPER heavy drama about a decade ago in Linux-Land about GNU libc and its numerous forks and competitors but that seems to have settled down over the last decade. I assume given where linux is headed, they'll soon be a mandatory systemd-libc to embrace extend and extinguish linux in general.

        I would agree in theory that variety can make life exciting but for better or worse at least WRT compiled C there's not much variety right now.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @03:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2020, @03:01PM (#1019094)

        > Too many fucking forks!

        That also applies to the Dining Philosophers problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday July 10 2020, @03:16AM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday July 10 2020, @03:16AM (#1018945) Journal

      But the coin only has two sides

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      La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..