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

[From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente]

Hello,

I am not sure if all the power of dpkg+apt would fit well in an
embedded system like the Nokia 770.

What about using the power of the ipkg software used in Familiar
distro[1] that is even compatible with .deb packages?

There is even a Gtk GUI for it developped by GPE people [2]  ;)

Have fun,

[1] http://familiar.handhelds.org/
[2] http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/details.phtml?package=gpe-package&official=&format=


2005/11/7, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> 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
>
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