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[Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:54:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Apparently I suck at e-mail addresses.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                           [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 18:41:52 +0100
> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Ubuntu Appstore Developers
>  <ubuntu-appstore-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-appstore-developers] Questions/comments in general
>  that have been floating in my head ref click and armhf debs
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
> 
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:37:47PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:27:54PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dave Morley <davmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > 2. How do you search for useful .deb armhf apps if there is no apt db?
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. If there is going to be a apt db then why not add the click package
> > > > > listing there too
> > > >
> > > > I am operating under the assumption (because it's what I was told at
> > > > Oakland) that there is no way to install deb packages on the phone
> > > > because that would block image updates.
> > >
> > > There'll be a developer mode that disables image-based updates and
> > > enables installation of .debs.  It'd be nice, though possibly not
> > > critical, if the dash code could be aware of that.
> > 
> > It's possible to add a scope for that, but the scope would have to be
> > disabled or absent in the default setup, and I don't have it in my roadmap.
> > So, perhaps, post 13.10?
> 
> I think that's OK - Stéphane, can you confirm that it would be
> reasonable behaviour for developer mode in 13.10 to require command-line
> tools to install packages?

Hi,

Yes that sounds perfectly reasonable, the switch to developer-mode will
likely be through the command-line, at least initially, so requiring it
to actually install .deb packages too sounds good.

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Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com

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