On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Gabriel Beddingfield <[email protected]>wrote:
> If you are the upstream OS (MeeGo, Fedora, RHEL, Debian, etc.) then > you work through this issue with policies and negotiations on mailing > lists, etc -- because you're making it a part of your OS. In this > case, we're talking about making it "add-on." > > By installing to /opt... then foo puts everything in /opt/foo and bar > puts everything in /opt/bar. No (or at least, fewer) collisions. > > The key question is if ALL of the various system services support such a layout. I.e. if you want the apps REALLY contained in their (/etc)/opt/foo dirs, then DBUS, icon management, upstart, etc must also know about this scheme and scan those dirs accordingly (this is a thing Maemo has never gotten around to and hence the sucky nature of optification). Best regards, Attila
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