On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 15:47, Jan Knutar <jknu...@nic.fi> 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. > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
