Thread: Requesting that private repos be taken down
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2009-06-19 , 17:00
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Originally Posted by jeremiah View Post
Firstly, they see the issue of personal repos as a problem for users since there is no way to do quality assurance on a private repo.
Uh... what?! Doing QA on any repo would be the same and would be no different than doing it on any other, Maemo or not. There are plenty of repos out there for different distros that do have QA... so... ?

Originally Posted by jeremiah View Post
If a user downloads something nasty their entire tablet experience is negatively affected.
How about we avoid this negative experience by just closing the tablet down to 3rd party software completely? Sounds great to me!

If other people want to have external repos, the owners of that external repo should be the ones doing QA. If they don't do it, it's their own fault. If users download apps from an external repo and it doesn't work properly, oh well. Not Maemo/Nokia's fault.