@gloopsies @bufalo1973 yeah, i never actually requested Snap to be installed. and an increasing number of packages simply have it as a dependency. it's no longer the package manager installing the software. the package manager just has a stub package that launches the Snap stuff.
@gloopsies @bufalo1973 i'm not opposed to a standardisation of when it comes to software deployment, but also, i dislike most contemporary approaches to it, such as Snap or Flatpak. what are binaries doing in my home directories?