On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote:
> The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications > as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there > could be incompatibilities with system > libraries. > Well, someone still has to create the "snappy" packages, correct? I don't see how the fact that applications can be containerized speeds up the process. One could point out that the fact each application is isolated that removes some of the burden from the packager to check requisites and dependencies - however what you get is duplication of libraries - with each application living in it's own little world. I don't see how that ensures that distributed packages are newer. If anything, it takes more disk space with applications potentially running old versions of libraries because the developers didn't want to invest the effort to upgrade their application to be compatible with the latest version. Case in point, java apps which require specific java versions.
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