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Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons



On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:43:54AM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
> 
> On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
> > > My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the
> > > platform installation process for installing and uninstalling plugins as it
> > "the platform installation process" sounds like using debs, am I wrong?
> No, in this case it is a deb.
An "application plugin manager" installing debs sounds wrong.

> > > However, leaving programs and binary non-user data on
> > > the device is considered acceptable. This is an interesting concept for
> > > phone and tablet devices which are resource constrained.
> > Users of space-constrained systems should clean up the files they no
> > longer need manually, preferably using tools that show the space
> > distribution.
> Most users have no concept of how to do this, they just buy another device
> because the old one is 'broken', i.e. is full of stuff they know nothing
> about.
If previously we were talking about generic things that include Debian
this seems to be talking about things that *don't* include Debian.

> > > I now know what path I need to follow, i.e. have a plugin manager that uses
> > > the platform installation process so that the uninstall process will work
> > > and the packages and objects will be tracked.
> > If this means calling apt from a plugin manager then it's probably not the
> > best idea.
> Not quite. The plugin manager needs to keep track of what it has installed
> and where, then during the uninstall process it can be called, if needed, to
> perform the cleanup as it would if the main program were calling it to
> uninstall one or more plugins. In most instances the main application is
> installed on devices that have only one user,
Yeah, wrong mailing list.

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