"ext Jonathan Greene" <atmasphere at atmasphere.net> writes: > As a user, I like how this sounds. I hope it also means that the > Application Manager and user experience will be largely free of > having to add repositories. That is a separate thing, but yes, locking down system package upgrades might make it more acceptable to ship the device with more repositories pre-configured. The maemo Extras repository comes to mind, of course, and maybe even the maemo SDK repository. > This could make finding new applications easier and more complete > than the current process which still requires some desire to explore > and understand the dependency factor. Hopefully the new Application Catalogue with the .install files makes adding repositories easy enough. > Is it possible for some of the installs to simply ask for a password - > in the same way that Apple OSX does it. I don't see this happening.
