On: Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

[heavyset_go]

My favorite anecdote about Snap is the development team's opinion when it comes to users wishing to relocate their ~/snap directory elsewhere.

It's a commonly requested feature and being able to move it would follow the Freedesktop.org spec, but the developers don't care.

[etskinner → heavyset_go]

What's stopping someone from doing:

$ ln -s /somewhere-else ~/snap

[hannasanarion → etskinner]

The problem isn't that the folder exists, the problem is that software is being installed in a non-hidden folder in the home directory. That's supposed to be a space for user files, not system software.

If anything has to be installed in the home folder for some reason, it is supposed to go into .local, so the user doesn't see it among their documents and photos.

[msclrhd → hannasanarion]

I've allocated a 5GiB partition to /home on my SSD, as it does not need to be bigger. I don't want it filling up with software or other things like ivy/maven caches.

[jhasse → etskinner]

~/snap would still exist then

[sascha_sl → etskinner]

bind mounts

[jrockway → heavyset_go]

Just hack your ls binary to not show the directory ;)

[heavyset_go → jrockway]

Fun fact: the Snap team's solution to this problem is to list ~/snap in a .hidden file[1] so that Nautilus or Dolphin hide it from view.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_file_and_hidden_directo...