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[Dave Morley <davmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 18/09/13 17:00, Simon wrote:
> Hello Daniel, Loïc, ...
> 
> In android some apps are using a similar system. QT for example has
> one app. If you try to start a QT-based app, it redirects you to
> the "QT-Lib-App" in the store and you have to download those libs.
> 
> However we should definitely have huge restrictions/"process of 
> thinking" about this topic. So we will not reimplement apt/yum.
> 
> Click is defined as "A package with only one dependency:
> ubuntu-sdk" till now. If we bloat Click to support libs, we should
> look at other (click-like) implementations first.
> 
> There were some (click-like) implementations which wheren't
> choosen because they could ship libs.
> 
> Am 18.09.2013 17:37, schrieb Daniel Holbach:
>> 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
>> 
> 
> 
> 

Daft comment I'm sure.  But if an app is installed ie has it's own
Folder then the plugin can be confined to that app folder too surely?

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