[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 16:40, <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>>    * Can we somehow add a /opt check into minimae/maemian? Is it
>>      possible, and is it sensible?
>
> Why making this /opt a requirement for everybody right now, when
> actually there are many apps under 200kb not bringing much hassle
> themselves. We all can convert them slowly.

I'm not sure it only is "thick" apps which are the issue. Symlinks (as
created by maemo-optify) aren't free; and a large app with lots of
them will still take up space in /. Neither HAM nor apt handle a full
/ very well, so if not a requirement, I'd probably argue for
/opt/_package_ being a recommendation for any Maemo user-facing
application.

Limiting it to a hack for a "large" app results in a question of when
is an app "large": 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, ...? If we can have a
consensus on *that*, that could be something we have a QA check for?

Cheers,

Andrew

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