update on ARB exception for /opt installation

[Shane Fagan]

Yeah we should do a meeting on this im free when ever you guys are free.

--fagan

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Allison Randal
<allison.randal at canonical.com> wrote:
> This unblocks us, so we can move forward with the applications currently
> in the queue.
>
> Could we schedule an IRC meeting later this week or early next week to
> run through those quickly? IIRC, we're scattered across US, Europe, and
> Australia, which makes timezones tricky, but still possible (I have
> another weekly dev meeting across those timezones).
>
> Allison
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: update on ARB exception for /opt installation
> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:17:24 -0500
> From: Allison Randal <allison at canonical.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>
> Tech Board met again today and agreed on:
>
> - Allow .desktop files to be installed outside /opt. This is the only
> exception needed, and persia has a potential workaround for Maverick.
> - In Natty, we'll modify Quickly, cdbs, python-support, and related
> packages to support installation in /opt.
> - For Maverick, accept that .pyc files and version symlinks won't be
> generated for Python libraries.
> - For Maverick, ARB will perform manual package fixes on proposed
> applications, to install in /opt and load libraries from /opt.
> - Binaries only in /opt (no exceptions for Maverick), will not be in $PATH.
> - Official install location is /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/<packagename>
> (with version number, i.e. "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/foo-1.5")
>
> Allison
>
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