On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 09:39 -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
I'm failing to connect the dots here... snappy is a different
packaging paradigm with some advantages
and disadvantages; but how exactly does it ensure that distributed
packages are newer? Isn't that
a function of the packager?
The point is that you can update to the newest versions of applications
as they are released upstream, without having to worry about whether there could be
incompatibilities with system
libraries.