[maemo-developers] External Repository and HAM

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> writes:

> All these are **real** problems we experienced in the early days of Maemo and 
> are the reasons we created the common repositories and put a LOT of pressure 
> on developers to use them.  By having a common repository, there is always 
> only one copy of the shared library, libfoo.  

To be fair, libraries do not _need_ to be shared, sharing them is an
optimization.