On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:31 AM Olek Wojnar <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry for the slow reply, life has been interesting recently... > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:26 PM Shengjing Zhu <z...@debian.org> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> May not answer you question directly. >> >> There's something called software center. Like discover[1] for KDE plasma, >> gnome-software[2] for GNOME. >> >> Users can install either debian package, or flatpak, or snap apps. >> >> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/plasma-discover >> [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-software > > > Ah, yes. That sounds familiar. Maybe this should be the location to implement > that functionality, and implement it upstream.
> Maybe such a functionality could be shared and eventually integrated into > aptitude and even apt itself. IMO, this implements in the wrong place. If there are such tools, like discover and gnome-software(they are GUI tools, maybe there's CLI tools which I don't know), it should be consumer of apt/aptitude, snap, and flatpak. Apt itself should be in the same level of snap. It may be a common sense that apt is the entry to install software for a Debian user, but it's also common sense that apt should install a *deb* package. It's really surprise that apt is installing a snap package, via some magics. -- Shengjing Zhu
