How to disable snapd update notifications permanently

[YieTa5ya]

@kyrofa

I agree the messages are annoying, but if you ignore/silence them the snap will eventually be updated out from under the running app with no warning, which rarely ends well. If you start getting very random errors from the app, you probably ran into snap confinement issues due to the update that was forced upon you and you’ll need to restart the app. As a result, you might consider making use of the refresh timer configuration as well which could improve things a little.

That’s a great point actually.

What I would like, ideally is: If the application is closed, snap may update away. If it’s open, never update. I think this whole “ultimatum” thing is ridiculous (“close your browser or else”) and exceptionally obtrusive. Replacing a binary without consent is horrific and downright hostile.

Especially since for a web browser, there is a small window of opportunity that snap always seems to miss (just booted up, but browser not started yet). Then, obviously, the browser is open as long as my computer is on and it cannot update.

Maybe I’ll just use the workaround to disable updates entirely by blackholing the snapcraft URI to 127.0.0.1. Or get rid of snapd completely. I don’t think it can be made to behave the way I want it to behave.