Hello,   

A lot of the things I envision for the gradual simplification of the OCaml 
build and package eco-system involves using OPAM files as the pivotal package 
metadata file format (Louis, I really need these x- fields for playing with 
ideas…)

Since OCaml packages may also get used outside OPAM itself (e.g. in an os 
package manager), this means that I need to install opam files so that they can 
be made available to hypothetical tools that consume them, independently from 
an OPAM install. The upcoming topkg packager overhaul will do this 
automatically, unless prevented.  

However the following questions remain:

1. Where should those be installed in `lib:` (like METAs) or `etc:` (seems more 
logical) or … ?  
2. Has this any chance to confuse OPAM itself  ? My guess is no, it treats its 
install directories elements as sequence of bytes.  

Best,

Daniel





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