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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Less is a great example of a program that will probably stay in extras-devel forever for no good reason except it will give people reasons to say "ooh--you took a horrible risk, no wonder your N900 is perpetually rebooting, you installed something from extras-devel!!"
*sigh*
Thing is, if you havenīt noticed, some apps that are in extras have also devel version. So itīs quite likely that when person enables devel/testing and does repo-update (Iīm taking about persons who do not understand squat about what they are doing) they notice that they have n+1 updates coming to apps that they already have. I would not be surprised that if after that person manages to update their safe extras apps to devel version and fundamentally do not really understand what just happened even thought they only installed one app from devel.

Devel has of course safe apps but IMO devel is generally for people who really understand what it means. We have already too much people reporting here weird behavior and I would not be surprised that itīs because of some devel&testing apps that leak memory over long period of time.
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