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2011-04-08 , 13:12
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Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
Maybe it is better idea to politely ask devlopers of ovi maps customisations to file an enhancement request on cssu bugzilla with appropriate patches. I don't think anyone involved in cssu development would have enough time and motivation to gather pieces of information spread across several hundred posts in the thread you linked.
There's actually no reason for it to be part of the CSSU either. To avoid legal issues the changes would be developed as a patch which, at install time, modified the files on a user's machine. This is similar to the approach on #11976. This package could then go in Extras, entirely independent of the CSSU.

The big advantage here is that these two big infrastructural projects are then split up and don't hold each other up; allowing more rapid iterative development and deployment.

Although when I mentioned this to the "patch" developers, they didn't seem to enthusiastic about this approach; preferring to ship code copyrighted to other people. Not going to happen on "official" maemo.org packages, IMHO.
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