[olpc-software] No package manager?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> We have agreed that rather than continuing arguing we'd go off and try
> to talk to people who are actually deploying systems into schools to see
> what their experience is.
> 
> I've argued to Chris that it will be necessary; flash is tight, and
> sharing of applications that may have multiple different dependencies I
> believe common.  Whether my experience on the iPAQ is directly
> applicable is an interesting question: there, we even felt the need for
> orphan detection and elimination.

Yeah, it's not clear to me how many we're talking about and if what they 
require will be part of the operating system.  I think the right answer 
here might be "let's figure out what they are using and make sure that 
the operating system contains the right components."

--Chris