olpc-update wipes out everything not in /home when it rsyncs. This would be otherwise fine, but the current use of olpc-update presents some difficulty in various use cases:
1) Alice's teacher wants her to use a flash (non-gnash working) web site for her homework. Her teacher had set it up for her in class, but as she walked home, her XO was auto-updated to the new version. This undid all of the changes that installed non-free flash, and made Alice late on her homework. 2) Bob is a developer. He tries out new packages on his development XO, but likes to be up to date with the latest joyride. Due to olpc-update's kill-it-all mentality, all of the wonderful things (VLC, Skype, etc) are wiped out multiple times a day. Any ideas? I thought we could just use a metapackage called olpc-standard, and make it depend on whatever is needed. That way, we still get to use a nice packaging system w/o removing all non /home customizations. -ffm
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