Thread: Extras Repository for N810
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mikkov is offline mikkov
2009-11-25 , 02:57
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Originally Posted by onlynone View Post
Okay, well whose job is it to put it there? Doesn't anyone else care that flite, and many other pieces of sofware, aren't available for diablo, but are for earlier distributions?
It's nobodys job. Somebody has completely voluntarely uploaded the software for earlier distributions, but nobody has been interested updating it for diablo.

Originally Posted by onlynone View Post
I don't see how that's possible when, as I stated, some of the repositories that came with the n810, or were automatically added, used chinook. Also, I have not "seen that there might be some problems using chinook". I was presented with updates to my software when I changed one of the repos to chinook, which seems like an improvement over using diablo.
Chinook repositories didn't come with N810. There may be some not so good .install files around which add chinook extras repository.

I would say that seeing that update notice is a problem, because the versions aren't newer if you look closely. Diablo is compatible with chinook, but just to keep things clean it's better to use only diablo repository.

Originally Posted by onlynone View Post
Also, can anyone tell me why the chinook repos are more up-to-date and have more software than diablo?
chinook repository is not more up-to-date. There may be more packages simply because it's been there longer and some packages have never been uploaded to diablo. But chinook repository is a bit more messy because it was maybe little too easy to upload stuff there (without buildable source, which is partly why some packages are missing from diablo).
 

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