I'm waiting for one of you guys to post a good write up on packaging and setting up a repo. I dont really do irc and this info needs to be something which can be viewed by others, such as in the wiki.

When i tried to set up a repo it seemed like a very error prone method of software distribution. Mostly too much room for user errors editing freeform text files. Also i dont want it worrying about dependencies unless i -want it- to worry about dependecies.

And another quirk someone could address... whats the minimim effort required to have a large icon for menu (os2008) and small icon for app manager, how to name and where to put files. I'm dissapointed that linux or the tablet cant scale them itself.

I would actually prefer repos to be categorized by source so i can instantly filter by specific source rather than the federated anarchy which it is. So i guess im looking for synaptic features or something.

Also there should be a good way to generate (fiasco?) images so that i can back up and restore to the internal flash memory. If that were a possibility then i would feel less of a need/want to have raw debs on an mmc which i can install.

Unfortunately i havent been able to find a deb-repack to reverse engineer packages... that would be helpful for backing up 'proven working' installs/versions for subsequent offline reinstallation. Perhaps someone can compile this and perhaps make a gui frontend. The metadata to generate such packages is right there in the .list files in the overcrowded /var/lib/dpkg/info directory.

Dont take this wrong but yea i understand your lethargic wish to see everything in the app manager candy store, but cant the devs get a candy store for publishing them devs can be lethargic too! Or do devs have to be space shuttle engineers for nokias 'stage 5' attention deficit disorder users.