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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?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Subsentient on Thursday July 09 2020, @11:55PM (1 child)
I agree, that always bothered the hell out of me. Fuck snaps. Just make a regular RPM or something. Or hell, just make a tarball with all the shared libraries in the same folder as the executable, and e.g. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`.
Lots of developers used to do that, I wish they'd do it again. I had no issues with little tarballs of binaries like that. It was kinda convenient, just keep it in ~/ and open the executable when you want to use it.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:36AM
"Or hell, just make a tarball" - Welcome to Slackware! This is how we do it.