[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Application catalog from repositories

[From: Andy Mulhearn]

On Thursday, July 20, 2006, at 11:43AM, <Jakub.Pavelek at nokia.com> wrote:

>From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org 
>>
>>Tommi Komulainen wrote:
>>> I see "libsqlite0 2.8.13-2" in two repositories / sections:
>>>       * under user/libs from Kernel Concepts
>>>       * under libs from Maemo repository
>>> 
>>
>>I think library packages that applications might want to pull 
>>in should not be using the user/whatever section convention, 
>>but the normal libs section as the Maemo package here does. 
>>Putting a library under user/libs clutters the application 
>>list with packages that are not applications and the user does 
>>not have a clue what they are (and should not need to know 
>>about at all). If you declare the section as libs instead, the 
>>installer will still pull that dependency from the repository, 
>>but without it showing in the installer UI.
>>
>>Tomas
>
>I second that. Seeing the libs in installed applications in the
>AppInstaller sounds really scary IMHO.
>

I'll third that. As a user I'm not sure why I want to see the libs as installable entities either? It's not like I'll install them other than as part of an application installation...

Andy