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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Whilst the implementation detail is correct that both are tar archives
> inside of an ar. Policy wise it's not possible to simply convert a
> .click into .deb and expect it to be properly functional - it will not
> install correctly, executables will not be available on the path,
> .desktop file will not get indexed, one will not be able to find that
> app from the dash, etc...

Good to know.  I was hoping you could just add a debian directory to 
the click package and have everything work, but that's not the case.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Fabio Colella 
<fabiocolella1990@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2265480 can 
> help you! ;)

Perfect!  Thanks a bunch for that link.  I haven't had a chance to try 
that yet, but it looks well explained.

Thanks,
Robert