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#140
Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
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Which brings us to my third point. Most community packages like qt 4.7.4, hildon-desktop, qt-components etc. are already superior than the official ones. We should fight to get them be the one and only upgrade path, push them to all users and make the N900 target one again. Because developing for maemo should be fun, most people do it in their free time and trying to cross compile for 2-3 kinds of setups (ssu users, cssu-users, extras-devel users etc) is just annoying and makes developers not want to care. There should be a project for consolidation of packages, deletion of orphaned dev packages that cause confusion (libqtm-12-*, qt-componets etc) and authoring of a small developers guide for the latest dev tools in maemo.
beg to differ here, at least formally...
i'm going to reflash my N900 in a little while to get ride of CSSU
i had my N900 running with KP v49 & about 130 apps without major problem but decided to give CSSU a run for its money; decided to start from scratch (flash - KP which happened to be updated to v50 the same day... - CSSU & the ~130 apps (or maybe i installed CSSU last, can't say for sure anymore)

bottom line?
unresponsive & crashy
it could be v50, of course, but...

so?
SSU runs pretty stable with anything you may get from extras, @ least. some -testing or -devel only packages require advanced features only available in PK, thus that seems unavoidable...
CSSU?
i know, the converted ones claim it is the (only) way to go, but how many N900 users are actually running CSSU?
are really all the (2nd hand) N900 buyers only hardcore developers or geeks? or just fans of FOSS & the PC in your pocket concept? and NOKIA, maybe?
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