You can create your own stores to distribute snap packages

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Although snap packages are very popular among the Gnu / Linux community, the truth is that the Ubuntu philosophy is somewhat dubious for many, especially for those who do not use Ubuntu as a regular distribution.
That is why the developers of snap packages have demonstrated what can be done with snap packages and their distribution. Thus, Dustin Kirkland has explained how to make your own snap package store in Fedora 24, the latest version of Fedora. According to Kirkland, Ubuntu will not have the only store with this package, but any user will be able to create their own store since its operation is the same as an http web server. Thus, after a few simple commands on the server, any user will be able to create their own snap package store and insert it into any distribution without having to depend on Ubuntu or Canonical for its realization.

Any user or distribution can create their own store with snap packages

The information of this private and test store can be found at Dustin's github, which has made it public so that anyone can take advantage of it. However, I doubt very much that the project managers of the different distributions will create their own store using this new packaging system.

Following the announcement of the generalization of snap, the Fedora team and other distributions have announced Flatpack, an alternative system to Snap. So as with deb packages, this new package system will not be the only one in the future of Gnu / Linux distributions and it seems that there will be a confrontation between snap and Flatpack. Now, for the moment the simplicity is in the snap packages Will they be able to overcome them or will Ubuntu packages reign? What do you think of this possibility?


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