Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-29 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 27/03/17 04:33, Michael Hall wrote: Because your snap is going to pull in all of your dependencies, doing one snap per tool will likely result in more duplication and thus more disk space than providing it all as a single package. That's a very good point. On the other hand, the disk space

Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-26 Thread Michael Hall
On 03/24/2017 07:40 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > On 25/03/17 00:27, mhall119 wrote: >> Usually you would include all related tools in the same snap. Is there a >> need to having them separate if they all need to be installed together? > > Mostly that they don't technically _need_ to all be

Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 25/03/17 00:27, mhall119 wrote: Usually you would include all related tools in the same snap. Is there a need to having them separate if they all need to be installed together? Mostly that they don't technically _need_ to all be together. I mean, why not split stuff up if its components ca

Re: Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread mhall119
Usually you would include all related tools in the same snap. Is there a need to having them separate if they all need to be installed together? On Mar 24, 2017 6:42 PM, "Joseph Rushton Wakeling" < joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote: > Hello folks, > > Is it possible -- or are there plans for --

Meta-packages for snaps

2017-03-24 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
Hello folks, Is it possible -- or are there plans for -- snap 'meta-packages' whose only job is to make sure that multiple related snap packages get installed together? The use-case I'm thinking of is a collective 'dlang' meta-package that would install a group of snaps each providing a diffe