According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>: > to a) "Were are all the apps?" > One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu way) > with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. Actually, I think we *have* that repo: repository.maemo.org. The problem is that there is no obvious, straightforward way for Jill Random to get her packages into the repo. Is this documented anywhere? A quick browse of maemo.org didn't find anything. But as I noted, there seems to be some plans to improve this situation. And, admittedly, it's not as easy as just letting anonymous people upload. Any package can trash the entire system, via the install hooks. Debian deals with this by making it so painful to become an official developer that the asshats won't make the effort. OTOH, the current situation encourages the addition of random repos to the source list, so basically is no different than letting random people upload. Given that the official nokia repos are still screwed up w.r.t. package signing (see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2067), we're training the users to ignore/avoid any security stuff anyway. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net
