According to Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> "ext Steve Greenland" <steveg at moregruel.net> writes:
>
> > Mostly it's the clicking/browsing issue.
>
> Ok, understood. This seems to be the general "I am much more
> productive at the command line than with a WIMP interface" situation.
> I can very much symphatize with that, but it mostly means that the
> Application Manager is not for you.
>
> It is perfectly fine and supported to use apt-get on the device.
> Having apt-get on the device is not just some artifact, it's the
> intended power-user interface that makes it acceptable for us to keep
> the Application Manager pretty basic.
That's a completely reasonable design decision, as is your point about
the magic "fix things" button.
> [AM showing newly-installed dependencies]
>
> That info was always there (since IT OS 2006).
Well, then I was blind. Not the first time...
> > [Auto-dependency tracking]
>
> The Application Manager should actually do this (since IT OS 2006).
> [*snip*]
> (In other words, it is conservative when removing things. Not like
> aptitude that goes and deletes half your OS if you are not careful..
> :)
Aww, cmon, this is mostly fixed in aptitude these days. Besides, it made
life exciting!
> Check /var/lib/osso-application-installer/autoinst to see which
> packages are eligible for automatic removal.
Mine's empty, but I probably haven't installed anything to trigger it
via the AM since the re-flash.
> I want to let libapt-pkg do the book keeping in the next release, of
> course.
Excellent news.
Thanks,
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
