[maemo-developers] Optification breaks package on upgrade from non-optified older version

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Thursday 15 October 2009 14:07:21 you wrote:
> This was discussed in the /opt BOF at the summit. The conclusions here
> were:
>   * Every application SHOULD be in /opt.
>
>   * Doing this on device (with the current approach) would slow down
>     application installation too much, and make debugging in
>     Scratchbox too hard.

Hey, I understand the motivation, but suffer from startup speed problems 
myself, and am getting that space hack-itch all over again (not present at 
the time of the BOF as I did not have my stuff ported to the N900 at the 
time :) I know pylauncher (as was asked/suggested by David Greaves) could 
ease this, but then we are again in hack-of-a-hack territory.