Task:Maemo Community distribution
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A community-provided distribution of Maemo.
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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.
We have 3 options for handling packages:
- Everything is copied wholesale from tableteer to the community repository.
- Pros: Straightforward, easy, controllable.
- Cons: Legal gray area.
- All free components from tableteer are copied to the community repository, and non-free components are fetched from tableteer.
- Pros: No legal issues, no additional effort for Nokia.
- Cons: Increases complexity, reduces control, and exposes users to updates before the community can sanitize them.
- All free components from tableteer are copied to the community repository, and a non-free section of tableteer is created and used for 3rd-party proprietary packages (flash, etc).
- Pros: Increased control, no legal issues, cleaner.
- Cons: More effort for Nokia.
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.