On Friday 11 September 2009 09:56:14 Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hmm, I am really in a detail-oriented "let's get this done" mode. As I > said, the question of whether or not and if so how to use /opt for > distribution packages is bigger than this, and I don't think we should > try to answer it here.
So, given all the controversy and discussion, why don't we start with the simple hack. Let's decide that for the short term, any package (or group of packages forming an application) which is over (say) 500K SHOULD (not MUST) use the maemo-optify hack or some other mechanism to put most of its data somewhere in /opt. Yes, I hate all the symlinks but it will do the job for now. But don't try to force it on all applications, or do it automatically. Just get the maintainers of the big, commonly installed apps to agree to use the hack for now. I am assuming that there is no way that, at this late stage, Nokia would even consider any serious changes to filesystems (such as union filesystems, etc.). So, much of this discussion is about how it can get fixed in the medium term. The **really** interesting question is going to be whether someone can come up with a solution which Nokia can (and will agree to) apply in a Fremantle update! Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
