On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:15, Nelson Ferreira <nelson.ferreira@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I must say I am really disappointed at how painful it is to do an > update on the N900. > I went through this game on PR1.1 and now PR1.1.1. > > If Maemo or MeeGo want a shot at a good end-user consumer this really > should be up there in the priority for stuff to fix... > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 18:01, Craig Woodward <woody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I swear I've never heard so much whining about a trivial topic in my life. You'd think Nokia > was pushing a completely closed release from the yelping going on. You installed 80 apps > from unstable or random repositories and sources, each time with a pop-up from the OS > saying that what you're doing is unsupported and could cause device instability. And now > you're complaining because an update is asking you to fix some of the damage you've > done so it can do an upgrade? It's called being an adult. If you can't handle it, stick to the > toys for 12 and under from now on. > > While I had no "problem" fixing it, it still took time to get around to do, and I believe that in an open source environment pointing out flaws and pain points is still valid. If that is not well seen in Maemo, then it will surely wither. I think that is not the case. You see, what for one is whining for others is making sure the real dimension of a problem is known. Again _I_ did not have a problem resolving it, but sure as well would have liked it to have been smoother. I also think most people having the issue are not installing from "random repositories" but rather are having problems from installs coming from a very specific repository: extras-devel, just because that is where the interesting stuff is brewing now. Once they move to extras I believe it will subside. However I do believe that the following suggestions should be considered by the team doing app manager: 1. Show from what repos the app/version is coming from. 2. Show the split between rootfs non rootfs requirements/usage, specially on uninstall 3. Allow for multiple selection for install/uninstall 4. Allow for the package cache to be out of rootfs _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
