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by robert_foss 1547 days ago
Well, no. The parent point was that Snap is a way out of this software packaging quagmire, but I am saying that Snap will never unify the linux distros.
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A snap has Ubuntu-specific package dependencies. That's totally not a cross-platform concept. The only thing snap solves is sandboxing, but there are better ways to do that.
> Ubuntu-specific package dependencies

Could you briefly summarize those for us?