maxquin
December 6, 2021, 11:30am
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I’m in devuan. A fork of debian. I see snapcraft is banned in devuan
https://packages.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt
Because snapd heavily depends on systemd. While flatpak is supported .
Please make patch to add other init system too for snapd/snapcraft. so it would be available to devuan too.
ogra
December 6, 2021, 12:36pm
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I am currently running MX Linux, a distribution which does not run systemd by default. As snap/snapd uses systemd as a soft dependency this got in the way of being able to install snap packages.
I have found a way to mostly work around this issue using a shell script which intercepts snapd requests for mounting snap/squashfs archives and tries to act the way systemctl would.
I have managed to get snaps installed (yay!) and got two out of three snaps to even run. The gory details of how I got t…
where this has been discussed before
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Pentoo.ch Linux / Gentoo
https://github.com/goose121/initify converts sytemd units to openrc scripts
however flatpack in gentoo is way to go… if snap just used units then you could shim them
tools to repack snaps to flatpak or offten flat scrape snaps store as is.
cronify for timers 50/50 shot
, initify works perfectly in most cases ,
used to convert Asus laptop utils for lights ie kb , python to start on old laptop at boot…