[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

Luciano Montanaro mikelima at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 18:46:36 UTC 2013


 I think depending on mer/nemo repositories makes sense, and increases
my confidence I will be able to use sailfish OS devices for quite some
time, and functionality could grow above whatever is in the initial
release.

The question is how will updates be managed? I think Mer releases
periodic snapshots, but how will those work in the sailfish
environment? I mean, there has to be a balance between up to date
package and stagnation...

The nokia devices were "release and forget" devices, as far as I can
tell. I hope that the Sailfish OS devices will be able to upgrade to
newer version of the operating system as long as possible.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Filip Kłębczyk <fklebczyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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