Comment 3 for bug 1849729

Thanks Olivier,

I could imagine that you'll get several other bug reports where people do not see how the underlying problem relates to "Cannot run chromium as user www-data because home directory is /var/www" - but I guess the issue is the same.

Btw, I've been using Linux for over 25 years and I don't understand the quote you mention and why snapd would be chosen to manage standard packages, if it (apparently) is broken (at least somebody is working on a fix, according to "Zygmunt's quote", mentioning "_for now_ has no workaround"). Home directories commonly are mounted (at least in professional environments) and quite commonly linked into /home/, and there never has been any problem with this, to the contrary, it solves many a headache (until now, as it seems). Feel free to send me back to old-fart-country where I came from, I'm just bothered by update-routines that break (standard!) environments.

If snap is broken and cannot deal with standard setups (this much I understand from the other bug and what I find in relation to "Zygmunt's quote"), may be it should be fixed before being included in the handling of standard packages?

OTOH, may be Ubuntu doesn't target professional environments. The solution of course is fine if the target audience are people who setup every new laptop from scratch and never work in networked environments (*scnr*).