I'm testing it out for Phoronix. The copr works correctly, it installs fine. Running snapper works fine, once you figure out what the correct instructions should be (snapcraft.io's instructions are slightly wrong).

Applications appear to run correctly and integrate fine in the Workstation environment.. minus LibreOffice.

File sizes are massive compared to traditional packages. The Document Foundation's rpm package for Linux x64 is 229 MBs. A LibreOffice 5.2 Beta snap that I found clocked in at 1.1 GB.

On Jun 14, 2016 14:26, "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth@gmail.com> wrote:

So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-binary-format-for-all-gnu-linux-distributions-505241.shtml

It claims that Canonical state that they have been working with Fedora developers to make this the universal packaging format.

The snapcraft.io site instructions say to use a COPR by a Canonical employee who is not a Fedora packager.

Does anyone in marketing or development now what the article is referring to and what's going on?

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