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[Martin Albisetti <martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently we're putting the UI component of the Payments service into the
> Click Store. This shouldn't be something that a user installs, sees in a
> search or could possibly purchase. It is useful to have go through the same
> update mechanisms of have the other Click machinery associated with the
> store. What we've discussed is having a way for the Click store to identify
> "system components" much like it does scopes and applications so that it can
> filter them for the search.
>
> What I'm proposing for this is that we add a stanza as a "hook" that we
> don't actually implement on the client anywhere today. The hook name would
> be "system-component" and it would point to a JSON file that today, for this
> example would just have "type" and "pay-ui". This would allow us to add
> other metadata as needed in the future.
>
> Thoughts?

Given I urged you to go down this path, I don't want to now oppose the
plan (although it *is* tempting!).

The only thing I think I would mention is that we should be careful to
not end up re-inventing apt and dependencies. That's just a general
hand-wavy statement, but something to keep in mind and maybe take us
back to the drawing board if these types of cases come up too often.


-- 
Martin