pro tip: use scriptlets instead of custom plugins

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Kyle Fazzari <kyle.fazzari at canonical.com>
wrote:

>
> - 'prepare' runs before build
> - 'build' replaces plugin build (including install)
> - 'install' runs after build. This is useful e.g. for a Makefile with no
> installation targets, or copying over some config files after the plugin
> does its thing.
>

I had a case where I wanted to run something before stage-packages were
pulled; I worked around the lack of hooks before stage-packages by using a
separate part; see:
https://github.com/lool/quortus-epc-snap/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml#L23

I dont know how common this is, thought I'd mention it

- Loïc
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