IDG Contributor Network: Goodbye rpm and deb. Hello Snaps!

Mark Shuttleworth today announced that Snaps, a new method Canonical developed for packaging applications is coming to other distributions.
A brief history of Linux's packaging mess
Unlike Mac or Windows Linux applications share the same libraries across the system and the main job of a package manager is to to find dependencies (libraries) needed by the application to install it.
Linux distributions are mainly divided into two packaging formats: rpm and deb. Distributions like Red Hat Enterpri