On 15 Jun 2016 16:09, "Alexander Larsson" <alexl@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:26 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
> > So I was rather surprised by this Softpaedia article today:
> > http://news.softpedia.com/news/snap-packages-become-the-universal-bin
> > ary-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?
>
> Snappy fundamentally relies on apparmour to do confinement (i.e. it
> doesn't use filesystem namespaces like flatpak), how does this work on
> fedora? You can't use selinux and apparmour at the same time, so this
> shouldn't be able to work, unless they disable the containment feature.
>

That's precisely what they are doing on non-Ubuntu distributions, disabling confinement.