[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu is replacing .deb with Snappy

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'Tis the era of making big changes.

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Will-DNF-Replace-Yum

On 09/05/15 02:57 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Ubuntu will be moving away from .deb it seems.
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-stable-future-ubuntu
> 
> http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
> 
> This is a major undertaking. Ubuntu used to capitalize on the fact that
> debian has vast mostly centralized repositories with tens of thousands
> of packages.
> 
> Now,Canonical will either have to a) re-roll all the packages from
> debian on an ongoing basis as releases (very labour intensive), or b)
> settle for a subset of what is available, thus causing less choice for
> their user base.
> 
> Usually a major change like that used to be rolled out to the community
> for testing for a fair amount of time, and then when acceptance grows
> (or not), it is gets into popular distros.
> 
> Snappy was announced in December of 2014, so it is only six months old ...
> 
> But of late things have been moving into a different direction: top
> down, not bottom up as it used to be. The example is systemd's adoption
> in Debian and Ubuntu.
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