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

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 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!

I like the idea of extra software being in /var/lib/install so it can't
mess up the rootfs is something goes wrongs.
What I really would like to have is the ability to use apt sources from
the GUI so I can click 'update' to update maemo components. The same
goes for the ability to install a newer version of a package without
having to remove it first (as is the case now).

regards,

Koen


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