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Snap configuration: the configure hook

You’ve heard it a million times: snaps bundle their dependencies. People seem to understand and accept the technical aspects of this, but today I want to talk about a more philosophical aspect. If you’re used to more traditional packaging, then you’re used to each project being standalone, e.g. Apache is its own package, with its own configuration; PHP is its own package, with its own configuration; and so on. As you begin creating a snap, perhaps one that bundles Apache, it’s easy to automatically gravitate toward wanting to make those config files available to your users as well....

September 12, 2017 · 7 min · Kyle