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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 16:31 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:40:30AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > A click package will have a version number defined, and will be
> > installed in a separate directory based on the version number.  This
> > directory will be /opt/click.ubuntu.com/$(package)/$(version)/
> 
> You must not rely on this directory.  It may change, particularly to
> support things like non-removable preinstalled apps in the system
> partition, or other cases of OEM apps.



Will there be a way to look up the directory for a particular package
then?  How should I find where it is installed?


> > A click package may have (and won't in v1) several applications
> > available from that package.  Each of those are defined in the manifest
> > with one being designated as "primary" for showing to the user
> > removal/installation graphics.
> 
> Yes.  (Note that the complexity arising from this of needing a composite
> app-id/application/version identifier also arises from having multiple
> parallel-installed versions; we could only avoid the composite
> identifier if we eliminated both requirements.)



Personally, I'm a fan of that.  But it seems that people believe we need
it for future expansion, so I left it in.

Thanks for reading through all this Colin!
Ted

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