[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

[Attila Csipa]

On 06-Nov-13 09:33, Marcin M. wrote:
> And somehow Debian and Ubuntu and ... do well it with real depends...

Debian, Ubuntu (and the whole desktop Linux world) is a very different 
setup from the classic appstore setup (so no orphaned packages/apps, 
less packages, less metadata, less frequent updates/releases, unlimited 
CPU/RAM/network). Ubuntu, with the limitation of apt (and yes, I'm a 
Ubuntu user, and love apt-get-ing) sucked on Maemo once the number of 
packages went to the thousands (and real stores are with app numbers in 
the hundred-thousands). It took ages (and a boatload of 
battery/CPU/flash) just to see if there is an update for something. And 
I'm not saying this as a plug for RPM-based repositories, for an 
appstore setup, they are almost as bad.

A dependency system can be really helpful. It's just that the 
environment changed a bit since the '90s, so while you can implement 
proof-of-concept level stores in an old-school Linux style packet 
management (see the Maemo experience), it can hardly scale to the 
proportions and use-cases modern appstores are aiming at.

Best regards,
Attila Csipa