Comment 282 for bug 1575053

I really appreciate the effort put into snapd. However, as a fellow software developer, I honestly fail to understand how an issue that's been going on for 4 years and has the most heat of all issues (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bugs?orderby=-heat&start=0), that depends on **being able to configure a base folder for snaps** requires a design document after 4 years of discussion. Specially when as mentioned before, the linux ecosystem already has defaults for this (ie, .local/, etc), or maybe a SNAPS_HOME env var?. I'm really curious as to how the current design precludes a simple fix. Any suggested link to read about this?