Thread: Red pill mode, wtf?
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Rushmore is offline Rushmore
2009-12-28 , 14:52
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#14
Originally Posted by Bec View Post
Installing an app by clicking or picking it up from a menu seems natural to me.
This is the way things are done on almost every OS and the appmanager has plenty annoying popups about safety.

If we're to be concerned about safety, then let's make the easy installation of .debs possible with a commandline or a mini-app like rootsh.
But having more installation files and having to "dpkg" them all really makes no sense to me.

Having used WM since it was released and Android for over a year, installing from a deb file would seem natural, but apparently Maemo is more "volatile" in regards to the potential of messing the device up and then requiring time and additional posts here to correct. People will be less likely to help since people have been warned.

One of the hazards of having an open OS, but everything it seems in life has both good and bad points. The good for Maemo and the N900 outweigh the bad IMO.