Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces Snaps with Flatpaks (linux.slashdot.org)

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Linux magazine reports that "Former Snap co-developer Alan Pope, who left Canonical in 2021 after 10 years with the company, has developed unsnap, a script that replaces snaps with Flatpaks where available. The script, hosted on GitHub, has been tested by the developers for use on Ubuntu and all de...

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[-] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, though I'm unsure why you'd bother with this. The script just searches for equivalent flatpaks and converts them. If there's no flatpak in existence for an app, it doesn't do anything to it. Just download the equivalent flatpak to begin with? Am I missing something?

[-] staticlifetime@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Same reason why you'd automate anything. It saves you some time if that's what you're trying to do.

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