This also makes it more clear what's MeeGo and what`s the HW integration layer.

But I can guess there will be some issues with OBS structure and project 
dependencies(circular).
Maybe someone with more OBS insight can confirm or reject this.

/R

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Marko Saukko
> Sent: den 10 juni 2010 12:17
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [MeeGo-dev] Separate device specific repositories...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to raise discussion about the repositories, especially the
> structure of Core repository. If I have understood correctly the core
> repository contains the main parts of the MeeGo which create the base
> of
> MeeGo OS for all of the devices/architectures.
> 
> In case of Nokia N900 there are already couple of N900 specific
> packages
> that are not required for other devices, including n900-camera-
> firmware,
> udev-rules-nokia-n900 and nokia-n900-configs.
> 
> Why do we want to put these device specific packages to the core
> repository? They are needed only for one device after all. Why not
> create
> own repository for the device(s) that do have device specific packages?
> When new devices are introduced to MeeGo by different vendors there
> will
> be more packages that are only required for a specific vendor or
> device.
> 
> By separating the packages to multiple repositories we would reduce the
> size of the core repository and simultaneously reduce the size of meta
> data end users would be required to download while updating their
> packages
> lists. Also this would "filter" the packages that do not work on
> certain
> devices out of the lists without extra package filtering on the device
> side. It would be better to reduce the amount of packages that users
> can
> install that do not work on their device.
> 
> In the end MeeGo is meant for mobile devices that have smaller network
> bandwidth, less processing power and less memory to handle this
> repository
> meta data.
> 
> Comments / opinions on this matter?
> 
> Related to this http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2337
> 
> Regards,
> Marko
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