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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/25/2013 09:33 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 16:04 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> I got the feeling that it might make sense to think about this and maybe
>> make the conscious decision to not support this. There are a few reasons
>> which might make this attractive:
>>
>>  - security issues regarding X mitigation
> 
> It seems like the only security issues are those that would say we shouldn't
> ship Unity 7 at all :-)  So supporting Click there doesn't add or subtract.
> 

I disagree. Click packages by themselves could be supported, sure. It is the
unreviewed code in the appstore that is the problem. I think it would be unwise
to let desktop users install arbitrary code on their systems via click packages
from the appstore without display server mediation.

> 
>> What's your take on this? Does anyone have click-packages-on-the-Desktop
>> as a strict requirement? Does anyone feel strongly about supporting this
>> (apart from a testing standpoint for app developers)?
> 
> I think that we should support Ubuntu as a converged platform.
> 
Yes, me too, but only when it is actually converged or when we can properly
support it when we are not yet converged.


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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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