KDE & Snappy

[sithlord48]

@vtpoet; i would rather use my hard drive space for my files then more system files...

As for your word perfect example that can be done with dpkg and the place to install such things is /opt. Much like google earth used to install to /opt since they deployed it with most of its dependcies in the package

edit:: why does KFN auto log me out so quickly that i can't type a post with out having to log back in..

[vtpoet]

Just tried Snappy out. Here's what's available (if I'm doing it right):

canonical-dragon 0.7.1 The gadget snap for the dragonboard
canonical-i386 3.1 The gadget snap for generic i386 systems
canonical-pc 3.1 AMD64 generic package
canonical-pc-linux 4.4.0-18+20160419.13-26 The ubuntu-core kernel snap
canonical-pi2 3.2 Raspberry Pi 2 support package
go-example-webserver 16.04-4 Minimal Golang webserver for snappy
hello-world 6.0 Hello world example
http 4.6692016 HTTPie in a snap
links 2.12-1 Web browser running in text mode
moon-buggy 1.0.51.9 Drive a car across the moon
nmap 7.12SVN-0.4 Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing
tor-middle-relay 0.2.7.6-4 Essential infrastructure node for Tor network
ubuntu-calculator-app 2.1+snap3 Ubuntu Calculator application for the Unity 7 desktop
ubuntu-clock-app 3.6+snap3 Ubuntu Clock application for the Unity 7 desktop
ubuntu-core 16.04+20160419.20-55 The ubuntu-core OS snap
webdm 0.16.2 # Snappyd
xkcd-webserver 16.04-5 Show random XKCD compic via a build-in webserver

Not a lot. Just to have a go at it, I installed Links via Snappy. Works great. =) Don't feel at all bloated. Found the experience rather slimming actually.

//Imagine, though, if were possible to scale it up, having a core kubuntu-desktop 'snap' that did not rely on debian packaging (which is a major issue with us in terms of workload and manpower) and included an unmodified, more up-to-date Qt (which often fixes a number of bugs), updated via a delta (changes-only) package, and can be rolled back? Interesting....//

Indeed, imagine... can't see how it wouldn't work beautifully alongside NEON?