[kwlug-disc] Presentation requests: package formats, repository best practices

[CrankyOldBugger]

I must be doing something wrong, then.  Last time I did an Ubuntu install,
I tried to remove snap, but I ended up breaking the whole OS install.  I
finally had to just wipe and load (which wasn't too bad as it was a fresh
install anyway).  So now I'm too scared to remove snap.


On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 15:51, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:02 PM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 04:06:06AM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
>> wrote:
>> > - Repository best practices: every programming language has its own
>> >   repository format. Archives like Debian or Ubuntu's seem to be
>> >   largely obsolete.
>>
>> One of the first things I do on a Ubuntu system is uninstall snapd.
>> Debian / ubuntu repos are definitely not obsolete for me.
>>
>
> I agree with Chris, and do the same: uninstall snap on all my machines.
> The .deb system works well, and the repositories are where things are.
>
> If anything, I don't want to have multiple potential sources of attack
> (i.e.
> minimize the attack surface), and possible breakage methods.
>
> An ongoing trend is not learning from the challenges and mistakes of the
> past and trying to revive past methods. In this case it is statically
> linked
> binaries vs. dynamically linked ones which has been the norm for the past
> 25 years or so ...
>
> If statically linked binaries are needed in some cases, then so be it, but
> not via an app store model.
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