Nelson Ferreira wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:47, Jan Knutar <jknutar@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Christian Walther wrote: >> >>> Apart from that, I really can't understand why Nokia doesn't supply >>> tools that allow to build clean packages, e.g. ones that install in a >>> location of their own, without saving *anything* to a location used >>> by the Maemo OS. >> All the developer has to do is create a debian/optify file in their >> project's sourcedir, with the contents "auto", and that works for the >> majority of cases. >> >>> And, honestly, what do you think is the appropriate reaction of any >>> user to a sentence like "The simple solution is to uninstall anything >>> not coming from <insert source here>"? Feels a bit like being slapped >>> in the face... >> There's a reason there's a warning about installing random crap from >> random place... Perhaps that warning should be made stronger... >> > > If only the App Manager would list the _source repository_ of the package... > >> Another nice feature would be if the application manager, or a web >> interface somewhere, could tell you beforehand how much space an app >> consumes on /... > > That too would be useful. Not as much as if the app manager didn't takes >10Mb of space for repo indexes -- "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..." _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
