neal at walfield
Apr 17, 2008, 4:02 AM
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At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:32:52 +0300,
Marius Vollmer wrote:
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> "ext Niels Breet" <maemo [at] breet> writes:
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> > There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state
> > we are in now.
>
> There is, http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html:
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> Segments and Sections
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> By default, the AM only shows packages in certain segments to the
> user. This has been done to hide the existence of the hundreds of
> system packages that make up the operating system itself. The AM is,
> at this point, not intended to let the user manage the whole system,
> only a smaller set of third party applications.
>
> The AM only shows packages in the user segment. Thus, your Section
> field in the control file should be of the form
It's worse than this (at least on Bora). Downloading a .deb and
opening it in the AM results in an error if the .deb doesn't have
Section user/FOO.
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