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 <fklebc...@gmail.com> wrote: > W dniu 06.11.2013 19:03, Martin Grimme pisze: > >> 2013/11/6, Marcin M. <marmistrz...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list -- Luciano Montanaro Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
