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Message #00577
Re: Shipping plugins as click packages
On 09/18/2013 11:05 AM, Pat McGowan wrote:
> On 09/18/2013 11:37 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> in a recent conversation Loïc brought up that there might be a desire to ship
>> plugins as click packages.
>>
>> To clarify
>> - this would be plugins or addons which are not part of the
>> default install
>> - they probably wouldn't use confinement
>> - they probably wouldn't need to be listed in the store, but
>> maybe in a special category, so they could be installed on
>> demand or automatically(?)
>>
>> Do we need anything to make this happen or should this work already?
>>
>> Have a great day,
>> Daniel
>>
> One good example would be additional media codecs. There is certainly work
> required for that to function.
> These tend to be system level additions so an apparmor hook would need to have
> been provided in the base image. Then we need some special criteria for allowing
> these packages into the store.
>
I think you mean a 'codecs' click hook here instead of an apparmor hook.
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Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
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