Re: Goodbye apt and yum? Ubuntu’s snap apps are coming to distros everywhere

[Andrew Haley]

On 16/06/16 04:29, Tim wrote:
> The point of shared libraries is efficiency.  Just wait to you
> install a dozen things that required Java, for instance, and they
> all decide that they need to bring in their own, rather than use a
> system installation.

Here's a thought: couldn't this system use MD5sums to de-dupe shared
files?  Then you'd solve the dependency problems and not waste space
on duplicated files.

Andrew.