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[FEATURE] Transition Snap App from Classic to Strict Confinement #609

Closed NWRichmond closed 4 years ago

NWRichmond commented 5 years ago

Installing ubuntu-make with Snap prompted a warning associated with the "classic" confinement level, which prompted me to read this high-level overview of Snap confinement models.

It seems like transitioning to the Strict confinement model would be a win for end-users.

LyzardKing commented 5 years ago

A strict confinement is not compatible with ubuntu-make. The program needs to be able to interact with apt to install the necessary dependencies. Also the frameworks installed via ubuntu-make need to be accessed by the user, and it can't be done in a strict snap.

On 3 August 2019 16:28:07 CEST, Nick Richmond notifications@github.com wrote:

Installing ubuntu-make with Snap prompted a warning associated with the "classic" confinement level, which prompted me to read this high-level overview of Snap confinement models.

It seems like transitioning to the Strict confinement model would be a win for end-users.

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NWRichmond commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the explanation, which makes good sense. Seeing as the warnings from snapd gave me pause about whether or not ubuntu-make would be safe to install (surely I'm not the only one?), would it make sense to include that information in the README or some other documentation?

LyzardKing commented 4 years ago

Closing for now. The reasons for a classic snap should be clear enough. If it's needed there are many articles related to the classic snap nature of umake