Em Terça-feira 07 Setembro 2010, às 11:33:04, Marius Vollmer escreveu:
> ext Andrew Flegg <[email protected]> writes:
> > Hopefully some clarification will show I'm unduly worried, but this
> > isn't without precedent: Nokia's Ovi store won't accept "properly"
> > packaged and multi-dependent applications for Maemo - a serious
> > misstep IMHO.
> 
> This is because of limitations of the Maemo OS: The Ovi Store can only
> deliver packages as isolated *.deb files to the device, and while the Maemo
> package management can install those, it can not resolve their
> dependencies simply because the code to do that isn't there.
> 
> Still, it's a precedent: We should not let that happen again with MeeGo.

Well, you shouldn't be able to depend on non-free components, or components 
that aren't available from the standard repositories.

In other words, if I buy an app from the Ovi Store, I don't want to find out 
after buying it that it won't install because I needed to buy some emoticons 
too.

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