Comment 5 for bug 1849753

Marking confirmed based on the forum reports.

To be clear, I’m not using ‘snap run’, just the ‘node’ that snap has put in the PATH, which is /snap/bin/node (a symlink to /usr/bin/snap). Lots of applications expect to be able to run ‘node’ from the PATH, including the ‘node’ snap’s own ‘npm’, ‘npx’, ‘yarn’, and ‘yarnpkg’ scripts.

If /snap/node/current/bin/node is expected to work better, then maybe it’s reasonable to ask why /snap/bin/node goes through /usr/bin/snap at all for a classic snap? Could snap just set it up as a direct symlink to /snap/node/current/bin/node and avoid this problem?