[Marketing] Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 17:08 +0200, Alexander Larsson 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. Right now, apparently, their install instructions tell you to disable SELinux.