Check the second-from-top users comment here:

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/mplayer/

Clearly, CLI apps need to be marked better in app manager. It is also bad marketing to have CLI apps in downoads/product section of maemo.org website. It creates the message that "this product is for command line users".

Still having CLI apps in a separate repository would be bad. For example many GUI apps use CLI apps (such as mplayer) as their engine.

I would suggest having CLI apps in a separate section (CLI/ ?) in app manager.