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RAOF

@double_a_runi @mcc It might be worth pointing out that Snap is the result of more than a decade of on-and-off work by the package maintainers you trust.

Like, “we need to develop something like Snap” was a topic at one of the first Ubuntu Developers' Summit I attended (back when those were big 6 monthly community events).

Snap and Flatpak are not some weird technology imposed on distro maintainers from outside. They are distro maintainer technology, built by distro maintainers to solve problems that distro maintainers have¹!

¹: And, by extension, solve problems that users have.

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Garrett Wollman

@RAOF Or create problems for users that they otherwise wouldn't have, like no longer being able to upload files from where they happen to be stored.

RAOF

@wollman Absolutely! This is one of the reasons it's taken more than a decade from “we should do this” to “this is a thing that substantially exists”.

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