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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 00:42:03
Message-Id: 5763474F.2010002@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages? by "José Maldonado"
1 On 17/06/2016 02:02, José Maldonado wrote:
2 > El 16/06/16 a las 16:33, Rich Freeman escribió:
3 >> FWIW - the subject of this thread suggests that this is some kind of
4 >> "official" Gentoo thing. As far as I can tell somebody took it upon
5 >> themselves to make this available for Gentoo, but it is not in any way
6 >> endorsed by the distro. Of course, if somebody wanted to package it
7 >> up and maintain it we probably wouldn't have any issues with having
8 >> the package manager in the repository. After all have other binary
9 >> distro package managers in there. That doesn't mean that Gentoo is
10 >> doing anything to ensure that whatever random repository you point it
11 >> at is up to date, any more than if you emerge debootstrap.
12 >
13 > The truth is that there is not even overlay system to install Gentoo.
14 > What if there is a ebuild, built by a developer Canonical for use in
15 > Gentoo, and I can hardly call that "official support" and "Gentoo
16 > community support".
17 >
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20 The headlines means that Snaps support Gentoo.
21 It doesn't mean that Gentoo supports Snaps.