Easier said than done, surprise: apt, who we know and love, is redirected to Snap for an ever-increasing number of packages.
reply"Don't use Snap", you say? I'll do you one better! Skip Ubuntu. 'Just' use anything else more suitable. Debian is an excellent replacement being upstream, but I hold no illusions over undeclared requirements.
> Easier said than done, surprise: apt, who we know and love, is redirected to Snap for an ever-increasing number of packages.
replyWith 24.04 at least, doing an 'apt purge snapd' seems to be quite useful. Is that not sufficient?
> With 24.04 at least, doing an 'apt purge snapd' seems to be quite useful. Is that not sufficient?
replyFor the moment, later pulling a package that is redirected would undo that effort. As the peer points out, too, that would likely rip out stuff you're using without having already configured preference.
One could maintain a boundless list of configs pinning repository preferences... or they could use a distribution that doesn't have a predisposition towards Snap.
On 25.10, removing snap gets rid of firefox, chromium, cups and many more packages.
replyProblem is most things are only snap. You can get them ocherwise but not by default
replyI can't believe people like Snap when in the name of security it breaks basic things such as accessing a folder on a different mount point that the user normally can access perfectly fine.
replyA packaging system should not break the basic abstractions of an OS.
Yeah, this was the frustrating bit to me. I use Firefox to look at stuff that lives in /tmp/, Snap Firefox can't do this. I'd remove Snap Firefox, pin the priorities and it would still silently crawl it's way back in after a week or two no matter what I tried. I gave up Ubuntu. Earlier versions used to respect the priorities but something changed.
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