"ext Juha Kallioinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ext Acadia Secure Networks wrote: > >> thanks for the helpful clarifications. I will make judicious use of red >> pill mode on my operational N800 until either a) I obtain a spare n800 >> for experimental use, or b) the apps become stable enough to go into the >> blue pill repository. > > I can understand that. However, with these particular tools it's not > that much a question of the applications not being stable enough for > everyday use, but that most of them are only useful for and usable by > people that are a bit more familiar with a linux/unix system.
Yep. Blue-pill mode does nothing to protect you from unstable or evil applications. The only real difference between red-pill and blue-pill mode is about what packages are shown in the UI. To keep some consistency and avoid confusion, blue-pill mode will not allow you to install packages that wouldn't be shown in the UI. Now, the 'two levels of enlightenment' (blue and red pill) might not be enough, as people say in this thread: there might be some people who want to use the Application Manager to manage their software installations, and they want to see more packages than Joe Gadget, but they don't want to see all of them. I'd say we should make the Application Manager better at dealing with lots of packages, such as fixing the performance problems and add some filtering, maybe based on debtags. It should even be acceptable to make a special version of the Application Manager that hackers could install. That way, we don't have to wrestle with getting un-official features into the official Nokia releases. [ I just looked at how Skype uses the Application Manager, and they make all the packages visible, including the libraries and l10n. Urks. Looks like I need to write more docs about how you are supposed to do multi-package applications... ] _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
