[maemo-community] Command line apps & Extras

[From: Sanjeev (EIPI)]

Can we not have an extras-CLI repository that a power user would have
to manually install in app manager like extras-testing?



On 11/28/09, Milos Mandaric <milos at manda.com.ba> wrote:
> I think that majority of users would ignore description of package and icon.
> For command-line programs only apt-get, like in Ubuntu.
>
> Disclaimer: I am a power user, can't live without command-line tools.
>
> 2009/11/28, Andrea Borgia <andrea at borgia.bo.it>:
>> Valerio Valerio wrote:
>>
>>> I think 2 & 3 is perfectly doable in the short term and perhaps can make
>>> both sides happy. Thoughts ?
>>
>> As you say, no.3 will be ignored so why bother at all?
>>
>> No.2 is a bit like now (the blue square for x11vnc comes to my mind) but
>> could be a good stop-gap solution until no.1 can be deployed. An icon
>> with a crossed-out "GUI" text would be pretty hard to ignore.
>>
>> Last but not least, if the "user/" prefix is Maemo specific the first
>> option would require little or no tweaks for ported applications.
>>
>> A.
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