I don't know about Rhino (or what it has to do with Mint), but Linux Mint got some clear stance against snap store.
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Yeap, I just mentioned Mint because I'm aware about its policy, which is the one I'm hopping Rhino also follows, but I can't tell.
Mint dumped Snaps in favour of Flatpack. Even then they are clearly labeled as such in the Software Manager. If both Flatpack and Deb are available for the package you can choose which to install.
Yes, I'm wishing Rhino does the same, so I'm asking if someone knows... Thanks !
my mistake. I read your first sentence to mean "Mint followed Ubuntu and would Rhino do the same" rather than "Would Rhino follow Mints lead".
You would probably get a better answer by asking a Rhino community. But a quick look at the documentation suggests you can choose: https://rhinolinux.org/wiki-rpk.html
I read about its rhino-pkg, which is just a wrapper as I mentioned. My concern is not about not being able to use each package manager directly, but rather on its packaging policy. Is it to follow canonical/ubuntu decisions? Or will it keep packaging what it as a distro offers to users on deb packages controlled by apt?
Yes, I cross posted it to [email protected] once I noticed it had a community, though I guess that would be the 1st post ever, :)
No, it doesn't use snaps for the packages.
Will they keep doing that, is there a policy about it written somewhere? Have they expressed something about it in a forum or news, just like mint did at some point when ubuntu started with firefox mess and others. I can't find anything from their web site, and on this reddit post, Does Rhino Linux use Ubuntu mirrors for apt packages?, it seems they follow closely ubuntu's mirrors, and if they do so, whatever ubuntu stops supporting on APT, sounds like rhino will stop supporting on APT as well.
This would be very sad at least for me.
Besides [email protected], which is not officially supported by rhino, there are 5 social media mechanisms they support, which I don't have account for neither I want to, and I don't want to subscribe to another mailing list either. Good old IRC is not one of the contact mechanisms supported BTW, neither email (but even if they did, I don't want to subscribe to yet another email list)... Perhaps someone on any of those official communication channels can ask and share what they answer, making a reference to what they answered already regarding repos...
Many thanks !
That's cool. Another point for the Rhino.