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2011-01-18 , 13:57
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Originally Posted by ivgalvez View Post
Instead of include complete replacements such as a media player or file manager I would allow the possibility to uninstall default applications so anyone can decide what to use in any case.
A few people have said this above, so I'll reply: the problem is that HAM doesn't make this easy. Media Player doesn't show up as an "installed application" in HAM, so the user can't uninstall it without dropping to the command line.

If Open Media Player wanted to replace it (and I imagine there'll be big problems with them both installed in the same system with DBus etc.) then Conflicts doesn't help either (IIRC), as HAM doesn't let you resolve them.

It might work if someone put some effort into making HAM handle that kind of thing by offering to uninstall a package that conflicts (via some kind of whitelist of non user/ packages), and that CSSU ships that version of HAM.

It'd still be weird as, in Extras, Open Media Player either would implicitly or explicitly, depend on CSSU to be installable by the average user!

I would also like to see improvements and new features on the existing applications, not only bug fixes. See, for example, the work that has been done to Hildon or Ovi Maps, maybe not all the patches are safe enough to be included with the CSSU some of them could be included when they prove to be tested enough.
Agreed, although I suspect - for legal reasons - it'd have to be packaged as a "patch" package which went and modified the in-system Ovi Maps. This then wouldn't be dependent on the CSSU, and could make its way to Extras on its own.
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