[maemo-developers] PPA's?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi Ville

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has a PPA system (ref: ubuntu) been considered for maemo.org? Having
> to shoehorn everything through the extras process is a bit too
> draconian for my tastes, and in general it's probably safer to add a
> single special-purpose repository somewhere than enable a full-blown
> extras-devel repository (that just might brick your phone).
>
PPA's have been discussed a few times already and did not receive real
negative votes. The Maemo community has put a great effort in removing
all the external repositories that where "alive or dead" on different
sites so I guess we are a little afraid :p. One of the biggest
problems besides chaos  was the question if you can trust code that is
not compiled on a "independent" system. I would like to use something
like PPA to be able to select apps I want to install on my N900 when
using my PC but ssh works pretty well :p


Greetings