Eero, On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Hi, > > ext James Sparenberg wrote: >>> (this is not an official comment on anything, just my personal opinions) >>> >>> ext Gavin O' Gorman wrote: >>>> On 1/30/07, Karl Bellve <Karl.Bellve at umassmed.edu> wrote: >>>>> Personally, I wish Nokia would have went with thunderbird and firefox >>>>> that could be improved by the outside community. Instead, they went with >>>>> buggy pieces of proprietary code that Nokia can't seem to fix on its >>>>> own. >>>>> >>>>> My other big complaint is that the entire device has to be reflashed in >>>>> order to run the new version of the OS. Why can't they update different >>>>> pieces, like the browser, or the kernel? Since the browser and flash >>>>> player hasn't been updated, I don't think I will update my Nokia 770. >>> I think some of the reasons are: >>> - Licence restrictions >>> - Hardware changes between the devices and dependencies on these >>> - API changes between the different releases (sometimes just reflecting >>> the different hardware, sometimes for other reasons). You can read >>> more on this from here: >>> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Os2007On770 >>> - Supporting mixing and matching of different package versions >>> would explode the (already very large) required testing effort. >> >> Why I'm curious do you think this would be any worse than dealing with >> Debian in the desktop world? debs are very capable of handling this kind >> of conflict, for example you couldn't using apt install an amd64 compiled >> deb onto a x86 compiled OS. > > Yes, that is right. > > If you read the list above carefully and with thought, surprise, > you'll notice that the package management is not listed as a problem... > > >>> - If you really want to upgrade (a small subset of the components) to >>> the very latest versions, you can do that using the development etc >>> repositories (sardine/herring/bora etc). However, this is not >>> supported for obvious reasons and you *will* need to reflash your >>> device occasionally *when* (not if) things break >> >> In my case there are things I'd remove rather than mix and match. In short >> freeing up room for things I do want. > > Nothing should be preventing you from removing packages. Just use dpkg > etc like you would do on Debian. See Maemo wiki for more information on > how to get root. > > If you accidentally remove something you would still need (which is not > in the Maemo repositories), you will need to reflash the device to > get it back though. And I guess removing or adding packages voids > your warrantly (because those configurations are not tested). > Warranty void if I install non-nokia packages?!?!?!? Please tell me this is not the case. > > - Eero > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- John P. Mitchell <john at cepros.com>
