I am starting this thread to provide knowledge on some of the good work that is happening around Maemo and it's integration with CSSU. More of a food for thought thread information you maybe completely unaware of.

As many will know some of the community developers have re-written stock applications. For the users of these they are providing us with small bug-fixes, portrait support and in many cases much needed extra features.

However a debate has come over including these in CSSU.

The current applications I am thinking of includes:-
Open Media Player
Replacement Worldclock
Qalender
camera-ui2 (aka nicocam)

While many including myself wouldn't mind these replacing the stock application in the future, it can be seen as un-FOSSlike to force these versions on everyone if they are happy with the stock version.

So why I am brothering to tell the community?
Well I am concerned that having the FOSS-alternavites and stock applications installed together long term is a pointless waste of resources.

Also for some of the applications to work or be fully working they need to replace there stock counterparts. Take OMP/MP for example in maemo "applications with name mediaplayer has special permissions in OHM and alsaped" This issue has to be fixed in maemo however alsaped is closed.

Is there a solution?
Yes, by the mammoth job of breaking up the stock metapackage, you could be free to install which version you like. However "as soon as you nuke the metapackage completely, you need to make sure *all* your inter-package dependencies are comprehensive, complete and correct"

There could then be a "FOSS-alternative" metapackage or repository to pull them from individually.

To look at the source of this discussion please see #maemo-ssu logs for Thursday and Friday.

http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-ssu-irclog/%2...07-24T21:53:17

For now there is no problem with them being included into CSSU-Devel repository, however IMO we need to look at the broader picture.