Running a rust app with libwebkit2gtk dependency

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@ivanceras

Is there a link to the bug/tracker for this issue?

its a feature in developmnent …

Layouts: re-mapping snap directories

Hey I’d like to describe an upcoming feature of snapd, that was designed on a sprint recently. The keyword is layouts and it will empower snap developers to alter the mount namespace in which their applications execute in ways not possible before. The general idea is that a snap can statically declare it wants to take some content and put it somewhere in the filesystem. The content can come from the snap itself, from the snap system-wide data. This will, for example, allow us to create the imp…

(you can actually make use of it already via the passthrough directive in snapcraft.yaml (note though that it will fail store review until the feature is out of experimental state))

you should be able to use something like (untested):

passthrough:
  layout:
    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0:
      bind: $SNAP/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0