Closing duplicate.
I could not find the original issue.
Could you please link to the duplicate when closing?
@gdrewb-valve is most likely referring to the Flatpak request from a couple weeks ago (#4473), which has the same intent as this issue report, just a different implementation.
I was actually referring to the entire set of Steam runtime problems, of which there are many, that are already open here, but I should have been more clear.
Snap format? "Oh hell no".
Not only this is a very new format (others have implemented this more successfuly), Canonical's CLA's are TERRIBLE and mostly don't allow much external code to be written to their creations.
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We know the insanity of steam downloading and dropping all the dynamically linked libs into /home. This seems to be a pragmatic solution, but it is problematic and non-standard, ugly behaviour and often leads to problems.
Switch the steam client over to a snap package. Canonical standardised this package format for exactly this use case when apps depend on specific versions of libs. snapd has been ported to other distributions already: ubuntu insights
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