My name is Oliver Calder and I am part of the Snapd team at Canonical. In this post, I’m excited to share some more information about a project I’ve been working on over several years with a talented group of people across the AppArmor, Desktop, Design, and Snapd teams: Permissions Prompting. Permissions Prompting is a new layer of user-defined security which empowers users to control at runtime the level of access applications have to the host system. There was an excellent post from around t...
Did I explicitly state that I was aware of how this worked in my original comment? I did? Oh good.
I don’t care if Firefox isn’t updated until I restart it. I just don’t want that terrible workflow:
Click update all. Firefox is open, therefore won’t update until you close it and click update again.
Every other package manager: Click update. All apps update. When I am ready to close Firefox it’ll be updated next time I use it.
Hence my “asked and answered” response. 🙄
the question asked was “why can’t snap do this thing, that every other package manager can”
stop being obtuse on purpose.