Task:Maemo Community distribution

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* advanced-backlight: To replace sound and brightness by default.
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* '''advanced-backlight''': To replace sound and brightness by default.
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* bootmenu: For multiboot and USB recovery.
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* '''bootmenu''': For multiboot and USB recovery.
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* e2fsprogs: For handling ext2/3 filesystems.
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* '''e2fsprogs''': For handling ext2/3 filesystems.
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* gizmo-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.
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* '''gizmo-installer''': Remove proprietary advertising.
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* rhapsody-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.
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* '''rhapsody-installer''': Remove proprietary advertising.
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* skype-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.
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* '''skype-installer''': Remove proprietary advertising.
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* hildon-status-bar-display: Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
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* '''hildon-status-bar-display''': Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
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* osso-statusbar-presence: Non-mandatory .desktop file
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* '''osso-statusbar-presence''': Non-mandatory .desktop file
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* osso-statusbar-sound: Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
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* '''osso-statusbar-sound''': Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
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* preinstalled-documentation-rx34/rx44: Move to its own package.
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* '''preinstalled-documentation-rx34/rx44''': Move to its own package.
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* preinstalled-images: Move to its own package.
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* '''preinstalled-images''': Move to its own package.
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* preinstalled-sounds: Move to its own package.
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* '''preinstalled-sounds''': Move to its own package.
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* preinstalled-videos: Move to its own package.
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* '''preinstalled-videos''': Move to its own package.

Revision as of 22:24, 1 October 2008

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A community-provided distribution of Maemo.

Contents

Goals

Provide a community distribution less encumbered by Nokia's corporate policies, more flexible in its packaging of OS files, and bundling community software versions.

Tasks

To get to a workable distribution, we first need to consider a number of problems.

Sort out a repository

It would be preferable to simply distribute all packages in Extras, but this adds complexity and may simply be impossible to do cleanly. The next option is to use a separate repository either on repository.maemo.org or a 3rd party repository somewhere else.

osso-software-version-community

We need to provide a community version of osso-software-version that has a modified dependencies list that provides the community distribution.

Add

  • advanced-backlight: To replace sound and brightness by default.
  • bootmenu: For multiboot and USB recovery.
  • e2fsprogs: For handling ext2/3 filesystems.

Remove

  • gizmo-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.
  • rhapsody-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.
  • skype-installer: Remove proprietary advertising.

Modify

  • hildon-status-bar-display: Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
  • osso-statusbar-presence: Non-mandatory .desktop file
  • osso-statusbar-sound: Remove from statusbar by default in favor of Advanced Backlight.
  • preinstalled-documentation-rx34/rx44: Move to its own package.
  • preinstalled-images: Move to its own package.
  • preinstalled-sounds: Move to its own package.
  • preinstalled-videos: Move to its own package.