[maemo-developers] How to get a general utility package cross-listed from tools to extras?

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Juha Kallioinen wrote:

> Those are the justifications I can make for the tools repository. I  
> agree with the repository bloat argument though and we could always  
> go back to having just one sdk repository if the bloat is a bigger  
> evil than a safe repo for the device.


Considering that a simple apt-get dist-upgrade (which a lot of people  
assume they can do safely) will land you in a reboot loop when the SDK  
repository is enabled, no, I don't think separating Tools and SDK is  
inappropriate.

My thought is that because the stuff in Tools is safe, and because it  
seems to be generally useful to a fair number of people, you might as  
well make it easier for those people to get to it by putting it in  
Extras.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair