2009/10/21 Martin Grimme <martin.gri...@gmail.com>: > Please don't get me wrong. optify is still useful and good to have, > but everybody should bear in mind that it's only a workaround, and > that relocating the software to /opt would be a much safer and more > elegant solution.
It would be helpful if you could provide instructions on how to install apps directly into /opt without changing too much of the packaging stuff (remember, some package maintainers have to keep the Diablo version and maybe even a Linux Desktop version up to date as well, so anything that avoids big differences in packaging/code helps here). I think a subsection on this wiki page would be ideal: http://wiki.maemo.org/Opt_Problem > IMHO optify is OK for porting software from upstream, but if you write > specifically for the N900, you should rather consider making your > software easily relocatable eventually. Adding "maemo-optify" as build-depends and to debian/rules is just simpler and more straightforward than doing more intrusive changes. I still hope that we get rid of maemo-optify at some point in the future, as it's a dirty dirty hack. In the mean time, Marius is doing a great job of fixing remaining bugs in the optify tool, even if it means adding even more dirty hacks (symlink/directory fixing in postinst ;). Thomas _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
