[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Installing packages in extra storage?

[From: Brad Burleson]

On 12/14/05, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/14/05, Brad Burleson <bradb667 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's a great idea.  Though in my (limited) experience, NFS and Samba
> don't
> > handle being disconnected and reconnected at will.
>
> You can manually mount/umount, as you do in your desktop.
>
> My idea is to help maemo platform in the package management area. This
> is one idea: enable users to use MMC, SMB, NFS and others as media to
> store applications. The other is to enable users to beam their
> applications to other users. Both are kind of connected.
>
> I'll start a proposal of enhancement in wiki next week.



This is an excellent idea, but the "manually mount/umount" is where I see
the real problem.  It's not really practical to expect the user to remember
to manually handle the mount/umount process.  At least for me, I guess.

Plus, what happens when the wifi connect drops and comes back?  I've seen
all sorts of problems on *nix where recovering from temporary network
outages doesn't work totally correctly (and you end up with hung/zombied
processes, etc.).

But I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.

Brad.
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