26 Apr
2019
26 Apr
'19
2:39 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:03:26 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
On Thursday 25 April 2019 16:08:53 E. Liddell wrote:
As far as I know, the snap application itself isn't harmful, but it bypasses
your distro's package manager, which is a recipe for all kinds of potentially
bad things and just general weirdness. I've never looked into it in enough
depth to find out whether it has any kind of license enforcement or whether
anyone other than the person who packaged the program tests this stuff
(my guess would be no and no). The only reason it exists is to allow people
who want to write closed-source software for Linux to create only one
package instead of having to produce a .deb and a .rpm *and* a properly
versioned list of dependencies, oh the horror! ('Scuse me while I roll my
eyes.)
E. Liddell
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:22 +0200
Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up on this one. I installed snap just to test this
mathpix thingie, but it didn't install any other packages, so no harm done (I
hope). I finally got my system running GNU/Linux with all free/libre software
(not sure where TDE stands on this ...), so I wouldn't want to keep it on my
system. It is not you have to install it via snap (so you
have to install snap
first) once you have installed snap, then
sudo snap install mathpix-snipping-tool
Will install it.
I checked the developer's website ( mathpix.com ). The application appears
to be closed-source. Snap ( snapcraft.io ) is a distro-hostile "universal"
installer program that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole,