On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 13:38, Marius Vollmer <marius.voll...@nokia.com> wrote: > ext Andrew Flegg <and...@bleb.org> writes: >> >> That changes things, if /opt is going away (in a Maemo Update?) [...] > > Careful. :-) The /opt directory itself is of course not becoming illegal > in some way, and your optified packages will continue to work, in the > same way as they will work on Diablo, Chinook, etc.
Indeed. However, if /opt is going to be in place for a month or two, we should make it completely transparent to developers; if that's what the the replacement (unionfs?) solution would do. However, in terms of quick wins, I reckon a unionfs solution could be integrated in time, without a fundamental restructure of Fremantle. Did you look at those? > The optification will become pointless, but it will be quite harmless > forever (except for the forest of symlinks, but I hope that they don't > cause significant cost). That's my concern: the forest of symlinks *could* have unforeseen performance, space usage, (developer) support issues which we won't encounter until widespread usage of lots of /opt-using applications make it out to the testers. Although a unionfs solution would be a bit more further dev on Nokia's part, it will reduce the developer complexity and gives us a real world solution now. I'm sure the community would help as well, with patching/building/testing kernel modules (once again, Nokia should realise there are clever technical people in the community who could help design an optimal (= quick & good) solution if engaged at the right time). Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
