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2010-04-10 , 19:56
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#14
Originally Posted by lma View Post
Furrfu, make up your mind people! I'm way past caring what the actual policy is, as long as we have one that's clear and unambiguous but apparently that's too hard (cf http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing...pplication_.3F).
And I've argued against it (and been ignored by whoever wrote that), not seen any consensus and it's just plain wrong by reductio ad absurdum. What is the difference between:
  1. OpenSSH server (starts at boot, is secure by asking for a root password on installation, has no other GUI)
  2. Additional multimedia decoders
  3. openntpd

Or even things like Telepathy plugins, Flashlight or the Facebook uploading widget which have no obvious GUI (or icon after installation) and require you to go to some specific part of the platform to discover them. Descriptions are important for all of these, a CLI icon (when they're not accessed through the CLI) is just plain silly.
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