Thread: [Announce] CSSU devel, it may eat your brain
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2017-10-23 , 19:07
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Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
Packages on Maemo have never been designed to be installed with apt.
Hildon application manager has built in features to limit any damage to the system which is why HAM is the only recommended way to install packages on Maemo.
Very true. Perhaps APT should be removed altogether then?

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
CSSU-Devel is for devs to share built packages quickly and would be ideally be used on a testing device where apt can be used with caution.
The point of APT that it is a package manager which handles dependencies automatically. When caution must be taken, we have dpkg to install packages manually.

APT exists in stable, testing and devel. It's one thing to expect developers to take caution but regular users expect APT to work as it is supposed to.
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