[maemo-developers] Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:47, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
>> ext Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> writes:
>>
>>> Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have
>>> categories when there are thousands of apps.
>>
>> Yes, this is overdue.  We also need a way to handle application specific
>> add-ons, like language packs.
>
> Instead of debtags, the subsection approach of
> user/network/command-line (or user/network/advanced) could solve both
> problems in one.

How about a totally different approach. Pretty much like the currently
nokia-binaries have a unique url
would it be possible to create "per" user repositories on the
maemo.org server and have some tool virtually merging
different repositories into this personal repository.

The rationale would be that you could do most stuff "online" and that
you can make your "application installer" even more simple. not
worrying about
all those sections etc. You could also possibly reflash your device
and get all the apps you had back.

Greetings