"ext Skarpness, Mark" <[email protected]> writes: >> So which of the previous arguments against Surrounds are still valid? > > The burden placed on the device vendor to ensure that all possible > external dependencies are available to every device.
This burden should be placed on the store. The devices only carry the burden to allow add-on packages to have dependencies to packages that are not yet installed but are available from the same store. This is a non-trivial requirement for the package management software on the devices, and thus I think it is important to nail this down. It is also nicely technical and we have a good chance to actually do nail it down. Nobody would be forced to have intra-store dependencies, but the devices would allow it. The question then is: What are the costs to allow intra-store dependencies on the device and can we afford them? (Community people, please excuse me saying "store" all the time. But my hope is that with non-stupid stores that know about dependencies, MeeGo Extra / Surrounds can look like a store to the device. Of course, there is then still a lot to be said about how to organize the relationship between stores and the community repository without causing a mess, but I feel that allowing intra-store dependencies is an important first step.) _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
