On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:23:38PM +0200, Xen wrote: > Oliver Grawert schreef op 05-10-2016 14:41: > >along with that click packages are user packages and being used in > >ubuntu products on sale since 2015 (snaps will replace them > >eventually). > > That just means a user can install them, not that they are installed > specifically for a user?
Not so; click packages may be installed (technically, "registered") specifically for one or more users. The process is mediated by a system facility, certainly, but it can be per-user. (It's also possible to register them for use by all users, which is roughly equivalent to a system-wide installation.) The reason for it to be mediated by a system facility was so that ten users all installing the same click package don't end up using ten times the storage. Not very interesting on a single-user phone, but potentially interesting on e.g. a multi-user tablet and would have been pretty important if click packages had ever made it to the desktop in a big way. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
