I took the initial posts on this issue to mean that Solus was effectively downstream to Ubuntu, which seemed odd and a bit disturbing. I am glad that is no longer the case. Dependency aside, there are some things it can be worth carrying a large patch set for (I remember what Nautilus looked like with and without the Solus patches), but for Snaps... I guess the chosen answer was the same, actually: stop carrying the patch set and use a better alternative, when one exists.
