FS#66795 - [gnome-software] Add snap plugin as optional package

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Oliver Old (oold) - Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 03:39 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 18:01 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

GNOME Software is supposed to be a one-stop shop for all kinds of software. The situation right now is that GNOME Software still supports managing snaps with an optional plugin, but the Arch repository only offers the default GNOME Software build with separate PackageKit plugin, which gives us Flatpak and system package support. It is possible to enable the snap plugin when building GNOME Software and there seems to be on-going work on the plugin, as is evident by the commit log [1]. I would like to see the snap plugin being offered as an optional package for gnome-software, similar to how the PackageKit plugin is being handled. Even if it works in a suboptimal way, I would rather use that than having to use the Snap Store in addition to GNOME Software.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/commits/master?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=snap
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Closed by  Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 18:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 18:01 GMT
We don't ship the snapd-glib library required for the plugin, and I'm not maintaining it.

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