[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] The future of the Application installer

[From: Marius Vollmer]

Hi,

as you all know, the current Application installer sucks more than
Cygnus X-1 [1], and this needs to change.

The current plan is to use the full power of dpkg+apt and put a nice
GUI on top of it.  The GUI design is pretty mature already and will be
nice and friendly but still powerful.  It will very likely be
implemented by canibalizing synaptic or some other existing graphical
package manager.

So, do you have any comments, feature requests, etc that go beyond
would you have on Debian already?  Something that you have on Debian
but a bsolutely don't want to lose?  Please let me know!

[1] http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/research/cygx1.html