[maemo-developers] Extras-devel cleanup?

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:

> . The apt dir also got moved to /opt, which probably slowed it down a bit in
> exchange for a lot more space or the rootfs. And last, but not least, the
> extras-devel Packages file is a solid 14MB nowadays (curse them icons !),
> which takes time to get parsed/processed/updated no mater how you slice it.

Ok then.

I guess what we need is an alternative app manager - something that is
as fast as apt-cache search / apt-get, but still allows "relaxed"
usage, with a modern ui.

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