[re-sending, whoops i forgot to send this to all recipients.  good job
i decided to review it and update the wiki eh, else i wouldn't have
known that i'd made the mistake of sending it only to lucas]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Lucas Adamski <[email protected]> wrote:
> In fairness, its worth considering that a better overall user experience 
> could be obtained by having dynamically web
> hosted without an explicit update process, because
> a) it maximizes the community that can participate in building really great 
> apps (without having to figure out code
> signing, versioning, Debian package management, etc)

 yes - and likewise any debian user knows that if they go download the
source code of an app and compile/install it themselves, they are "on
their own".

 hmmm, that's a good point.  it would be a good idea to have the
concept of /usr and /usr/local within B2G to recognise this.

 so... "...../gaia/usr" for pre-vetted "official" and "stable" stuff,
but "...../gaia/usr/local/" for stuff that people want to put on there
and do development.

 the problem comes of course when people start doing that en-masse,
but that's their problem: they just "voided the warranty" anyway.
so.... don't make it too easy, would be my advice! :)  force them to
get root access or something, make it part of the developer
documentation and bury it deep.  only the patient and the intelligent
would find it :)
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