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earthling is offline earthling
2010-01-31 , 04:30
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#40
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
And to protect the system as a whole. Installing packages via dpkg directly is highly unusual for -any- distro that uses APT for package management.


Not in the slightest. An apt repo can be set up by anyone with an HTTP server, and if you can't get your app into the Maemo repos (even -devel) then there's probably a good reason.
You are implying that the reasons for not getting an application into the semi-official repos will be purely technical. That there will be no market reasons, no personal reasons, none of that stuff. That would be the first time, but we can hope.

I am not saying that there is bad intent, I said that there <i>is</i> more control this way, not what such control would be used for.