[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Many garage apps not in garage repository

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:43:17AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I recently updated my 770 and got a now very well working maemo-mapper. Very 
> impressive work, and I almost missed the important update. Fortunately, I had 
> the right entry in my sources.list file.
> 
> I noticed that many (most?) of the garage packages are not listed by apt-cache 
> (oggplay, maemopadplus, scite,....). Couldn't we have a repository which 
> contains (almost?) all packages on garage?

Yes, that's repository.maemo.org, component "extras".

You have to go and bug individual package maintainers to read
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ExtrasRepository and upload their packages
there.

> Can I subscribe to a forum, such that I get mailed all the new posts, like a 
> mailing list does?

No idea.  I do not use forums.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Any time somebody tells you that you shouldn't do something because it's
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