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2008-05-22
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2008-05-22
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Reggie will be any features to allow uploads of stuff that really doesn't have a place on maemo.org like Custom Made Wall Paper Collection or others stuff or are we going to have to try and get maemo.org to make a section for stuff like that and it just be ported over here. Just wondering.
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2008-05-22
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2008-05-22
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Responding to both posts...
I see no need to have things statically linked in order to be independently downloadable; links to where you can find those libraries (or, perhaps, mirroring the libraries) is much more sane.
But the whole point of repositories is so you don't have "dependency hell". If you have those problems, it's an issue of how the repositories are set up, how many of them there are, etc.; fixing that (by using maemo.org extras repo, mainly) is what GA, Tex, and others are advocating, and will avoid both "dependency hell" and every app having its own version of every (non-stock OS) library statically linked in.
FWIW, I don't often finding dependency hunting especially hellious when using a dependency-less packaging system (slackware fanboy here!); and it's not all that bad when using dpkg. But I recognize that there are indeed "many people", as you say, who would quit because they have no knowledge. That's why apt-get install $PACKAGE is supposed to just work.
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2008-05-22
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Garage and maemo.org are developer sites, not user sites, and it would have been nice to see some site designed for end users carrying a download section.
The average end user who visits maemo.org will assume it's only for programmers and leave, because that's what it was mainly designed for.
No one seems to want to do tablet sites aimed at end users, sometimes it seems like the tablet world is just developers and hardcore users talking to each other.
Tableteer is maybe the closest to a genuine user site, but it only gets updated once in a blue moon and doesn't have much content. It's also inaccessible from a PC if you go through the front page.
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