[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] SDK vs. device: libSM and libICE

[From: Johannes Eickhold]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.08.2006, 12:19 +0200 schrieb Christian Henz: 
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 14:50, you wrote:
> > Cristian,
> >
> > have a look at this
> > http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-July/004489.html
> >
> 
> My point is that the libs are only in the maemo repository. They are not 
> on the device or the catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com repository. I do not want 
> to install them on the device since I don't even need them. They are just 
> linked because they are found on the SDK. And you can not uninstall them in 
> the SDK because xlibs-dev depends on them.

This implies some interesting questions which popped up on #maemo
yesterday, too.

Are packages from the catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com repository only
meant to be installed on the device while packages from the
repository.maemo.org repository are only meant to be installed in
scratchbox?

Are packages in repository.maemo.org assumed to allways work on the
device or only in scratchbox?

I don't think this is clearly documented anywhere and it's even less a
common practise because some packages in the application catalog assume
and suggest to enter the repository.maemo.org on the device.

This is also related to the "apt-get upgrade" -> "Reboot Cycle" problem
which seems to appear more frequently lately.

Cheers,
  Jonek.