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Sitter: Snappy sprint reporty musing
Harald Sitter reports
on a discussion at recent sprint focused on making Snap packaging useful
for KDE. "Shipping things users can use on Linux has been a pain in the rear
since forever and these bundles are meant to change that. As such we
as KDE should have a strong interest and presence in this field in the
hopes of shaping a future that is useful to us. After all, we are one
of the biggest source distributors, and the primary reason we don't
also offer generic binary packages of our applications is because this
never scaled and was altogether terrible to pull off from a KDE point
of view." He and Scarlett Clark are working on some
high level mass automation of snap building on top of KDE Neon's existing
deb binaries. (Thanks to Jos van den Oever)