This is disappointing in the context of #3279 and the effort the community is putting in on the QA process. However, it's also flawed if links to Maemo Select are going to be prominent on shipped devices. The first time a user installs a community app from Maemo Select, Extras is going to get enabled. Figuring that at least 90% of users will install one of the apps from Maemo Select and that it's 50/50 whether it's a community app, why not ship with Extras enabled out-of-the-box?

Except the product managers and engineers knew they were using an OMAP3430 with the same amount of NAND space as the N810 over a year ago. And then a month before launch Nokia announce that pretty much every third party app has to install into a different location as there's not enough space on the rootfs? It was braindead. Truly. If the problem were properly recognised earlier (and it should've carried over from the N8x0 feedback), there are multiple cleaner solutions architecturally (which have been discussed in the original maemo-developers thread).