[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] XUL Extensions policy directory question

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:03:05PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > One concern raised by mozilla on a canonical location for _all_
> > extensions that only work for some targetapplications - and why we
> > probably do not want to put everything in common - is that startup
> > performance will get a hit for nothing if an app has to parse extensions
> > that are not going to work anyway.
> 
> The startup performance hit should only apply after an extension has been
> installed. Not in other cases.

Right. still there is no real win from putting it into common ... imo
not something we should put into policy (packages can do that if they
want, but I wouldnt like to make a best practice out of it).

 - Alexander