Snapcraft support for other init systems (sysVinit, runit, openrc)?

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Installing and running snaps without systemd

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…

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