Comment 15 for bug 1611287
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| Command Prompt, Inc. (commandpromptinc) wrote | #15 |
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Just to elaborate further, I think it is very convenient to be able to have multiple copies of the same application running on the same host.
Whether people are doing this or not is unknown to me, but it is obvious that with snap packages it is as easy as running an app as several different users. It is not so hard to imagine that some people will want to run apps as normal, unprivileged users as opposed to system-wide daemons run as root and thus configuration files will have to reference different home directories.
Sure, it can be done with some basic sed and using custom variables like for example %#FSPATH#% to ensure sed works only on something unique like that but since we're talking about snapcraft handling configuration files in a way that doesn't require a wrapper, I think there's no escaping from having snapcraft or some plug-in processing configuration files and setting correct filesystem paths.
Ivan