Thread: Red pill mode, wtf?
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crenquis is offline crenquis
2010-01-14 , 23:41
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#63
Originally Posted by rcull View Post
I believe that you are all barking up the wrong tree.

The point here is not really about Red Pill Mode[ or not.

The purpose of Red Pill Mode is not, and never was, the installation of packages obtained from other sources.

This functionality used to be a completely separate menu option in previous incarnations of maemo - see screenshot.

Add this option back into the menu and most of the objections to the removal of Red Pill Mode would vanish!
What I miss about Red Pill Mode is that one could see all the packages/libraries/etc installed on the machine and see all the dependencies (not just the few things installed from "extras"). Being able to easily see that information in a GUI makes it easier to understand the system and to figure out what I just hosed when I installed that .deb from the shell....
I also used RedPill to uninstall default programs that I never used e.g. marbles/chess/etc. (although that has become more difficult with the consolidation of several programs under a null package).