The thing to watch out for, if it isn't a straight pull, is the cable rubbing on anything. The cables are usually metal braid so they can eat their way through most other materials (plastic, rubber, weaker metals) and this includes the edges of the solonoid. While it isn't required that they have a straight pull it will increase the life of the solonoid, anything in it's path also, and keep you from having to get back in there any time soon.
This was a big concern in the Probe project, we put it in, at first, without it being in a straight line. Within 10 test runs you could see it starting to eat into the side of the solonoid (not much of course, but you could see some wear). Over the years this would have caused issues so I moved it. I had the car for more then 3 years after that (just sold it a few months ago) and the trunk release (along with the remote windows and other alarm goodies) never failed.