On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 16:31 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:40:30AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > > A click package will have a version number defined, and will be > > installed in a separate directory based on the version number. This > > directory will be /opt/click.ubuntu.com/$(package)/$(version)/ > > You must not rely on this directory. It may change, particularly to > support things like non-removable preinstalled apps in the system > partition, or other cases of OEM apps.
Will there be a way to look up the directory for a particular package then? How should I find where it is installed? > > A click package may have (and won't in v1) several applications > > available from that package. Each of those are defined in the manifest > > with one being designated as "primary" for showing to the user > > removal/installation graphics. > > Yes. (Note that the complexity arising from this of needing a composite > app-id/application/version identifier also arises from having multiple > parallel-installed versions; we could only avoid the composite > identifier if we eliminated both requirements.) Personally, I'm a fan of that. But it seems that people believe we need it for future expansion, so I left it in. Thanks for reading through all this Colin! Ted
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