Proposing a New App Developer Upload Process

[Michael Hall]

On 09/05/2012 05:51 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
>> It's important to remember that when we say "support /opt/ properly"
>> what we really mean is "support /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/* properly".  We
>> aren't just using /opt/ as an install prefix, we making a different
>> install prefix for every single application, and that means that every
>> tool is going to need to consider every install prefix for every
>> application that might be installed.
> 
> Can this not be solved with a post-install-hooked script (added by
> dh_extras) that collates symlinks to everything in
> /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/{appname}/share/applications/{appname}.desktop
> in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/share/applications?
> 
> Suddenly we only have one new path to look at. Not n paths.
> 
> SR
> 

Yes, or we could just allow the direct installation into
/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/share/applications/.  But in doing so, we bring
back the possibility for file conflicts because we're not isolating
Extras apps from each other.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com