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

From: Frantisek Dufka dufkaf at seznam.cz
Date: Fri Sep 11 10:54:36 EEST 2009
Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 
> ...because /opt is a hack because no-one at Nokia had the foresight to
> imagine that users might want to install multiple applications, and
> large new frameworks like Qt.

It wasn't really hard to see this coming. We are booting from MMC since 
the OS2006 days and one of reasons users do it is that the space in 
internal NAND is too small. 3 years later someone noticed this problem 
and we have this ugly /opt hack done in last minutes. Oh well ;-)

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