Comment #45 from Quim Gil (Nokia) 2010-04-12 13:17:47 GMT+3 [reply]
(In reply to comment #44)
> (In reply to comment #42)
> > When it comes to applications, the first release will have still a monolithic
> > metapackage managing all apps including e.g. Sketch or Mahjong. The current
> > plan is to make those little apps also uninstallable. This feature would come
> > in a maintenance release.
>
> Quim, is that still the plan? Asking because of bug 9891.

That was indeed planned but was cancelled. The most annoying problems were
solved by separating content from apps. But then separating apps from platform
was still complicated for many apps in Fremantle, there was some extra work in
packaging and localizations and it was considered not so relevant.

fwiw Harmattan/MeeGo brings a well layered architecture and a process to handle
system updates autonomous of applications...