Thread: How to take the Red-Pill and install more apps on the N900
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CrashandDie is offline CrashandDie
2009-11-29 , 09:21
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#38
Originally Posted by sirflyalot View Post
I remember that with the N800/810, the red pill would make a bunch of new applications available, like the apache webserver and the postgresql database. Do you think these will be available without red pill mode in the N900? It was a hog, but I liked having postgresql on my N810.
I am not trying to raise the ire of the "No Red Pillers", but I had only used it these last few years to get the hidden packages.
No, actually, it didn't make "new software packages available". At best it only displayed *every single* software package available in the repositories, which is absolutely useless.

Does a user need to know that libsdl2.0 is available? No, of course not. Is there any use of having people see libxerces show up in the middle of their applications? Not in the least. There are specific software categories, and the user* categories are the ones being displayed. System dependencies, or dependencies which have no UI (libraries) at all shouldn't be displayed.

The reason you saw Apache and Postgre appear was because those packages had been poorly ported initially. They should've been part of the user* packages, obviously.
 

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