Thread: How would you change Maemo.org Downloads and Application Manager?
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Originally Posted by rheve View Post
I would tend to disagree.
You obviously don't know much about the Debian packaging system then.

Originally Posted by rheve View Post
If packages contain a category ID (verssus name) it would then be responsability of the AM to properly sort them.
Yes, breaking the whole packaging system because packagers can't agree on some categorization guidelines is a fantastic idea.

Changing from a bunch of letters to a bunch of numbers accomplishes exactly nothing and breaks the whole system in the process—it's not the GUI package manager's job to categorize and sort packages, it's the package maintainer's.

Originally Posted by rheve View Post
Same way if packages contain a "red pill" boolean.
Uh, what? The packagers don't decide if something needs red pill to be installed, there are a lot more variables involved in whether something needs to be sledgehammered into place than you seem to think.