On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:23 +0300, Lauri Leukkunen wrote: > On 17/08/07 11:37 +0300, ext Ed Bartosh wrote: > > BTW, Debian and other linux distributions proved central repository > > concept long time ago. I have no idea why we didn't follow it from the > > start, but re-invented Windows-like one-click installations instead. > > I remember. We were supposed to shave every kilobyte off of the flash image > size. There was no package database on the device. Applications were supposed > to be still somehow installed. Designing the solution to this problem was > given to people who were perhaps not the most suitable for the task. > Rest followed from there. > > It's not like people had not voiced their objection to this bastardization of > the platform, but since our management chose to cave in to > product program's pressure to adhere to established Nokia way of building > products, that's what we got. This same fight between doing things right and > doing things the nokia way is still ongoing in other parts of the stack. > Thank you for sharing your view. I 100% agree with it.
2Daniel: This can be considered as an explanation of the reason for the difference between Debian and our ways of doing things. However I don't think that .install files functionality of automatically adding repositories is related to this. I doubt that implementation of this 'feature' was required by Nokia management. -- Ed Bartosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nokia-M/Helsinki _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
