Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Xen wrote:
> Oliver Grawert schreef op 05-10-2016 14:41:
> >along with that click packages are user packages and being used in
> >ubuntu products on sale since 2015 (snaps will replace them
> >eventually).
> 
> That just means a user can install them, not that they are installed
> specifically for a user?

Not so; click packages may be installed (technically, "registered")
specifically for one or more users.  The process is mediated by a system
facility, certainly, but it can be per-user.  (It's also possible to
register them for use by all users, which is roughly equivalent to a
system-wide installation.)

The reason for it to be mediated by a system facility was so that ten
users all installing the same click package don't end up using ten times
the storage.  Not very interesting on a single-user phone, but
potentially interesting on e.g. a multi-user tablet and would have been
pretty important if click packages had ever made it to the desktop in a
big way.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]