[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

Filip Kłębczyk fklebczyk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 18:06:43 UTC 2013


W dniu 06.11.2013 19:03, Martin Grimme pisze:
> 2013/11/6, Marcin M. <marmistrzmar at gmail.com>:
>> And somehow Debian and Ubuntu and ... do well it with real depends...
>
> Well, Ubuntu and Debian are both dead slow on package management, and
> the main reason for that is a fancy dependencies resolving system.
>
> Still, if you add some 3rd party repos to Debian or Ubuntu that try to
> replace some essential system packages with forked or newer versions,
> then I'm not sure if a OS upgrade would went well, or break some
> things, minor or major.
> Have you ever tried installing GNOME shell on Ubuntu back when GNOME 3
> was released? I found it was best to reinstall Ubuntu after this
> experiment.
>
> And the last thing you'd want to have as a phone vendor is bricking
> user's phones on upgrades. You have to be careful what kind of system
> modifications to allow, and what not.
>
> You can do a lot of dangerous stuff with dependencies with rpm, so
> better not allow it in the first place (to regular users; I'm not
> talking about Linux geeks here).

Totally agree with Martin. If Jolla wants to be successful and 
mainstream - average users should be priority. Power users will always 
find a way to do things.

Regards,
Filip


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