> the unstable repository--whatever, so the user decides (perhaps with > the encouragement of some of their peers) to dive in, add the unstable > repository and install the application.
Use an install file to install the application in question? Assuming the application needs libraries which are contained in the extras-devel repo, you'd need to temporarily enable that repo. My feeling is that the repos enabled/added as part of install files should be disabled immediately after the app in question has been added in any case, so I suggest this change is made to the way Application Manager handles the install files. Would that achieve the desired goal? It would require that a list of application install files are available (perhaps auto-generated from the contents of the repo, or perhaps by the author in question?) > packages origin (color coding, a small icon) and notices might also > help ("this package is unstable software, and may contain many > significant bugs, are you sure you want to install it?"), or even some > sort of apt pinning system to ignore certain updates. I also like the idea of flagging applications that come from somewhere other than Extras, and I suppose it would be possible to have an Updates section with Stable and Unstable candidates in it (or perhaps allow updates to be sorted by their origin repo - and have Extras as the default origin). But these are still more for power users, simply disabling the repo immediately after use is imo a better bet for unskilled "users". Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers