Re: Deebian 7.0 needs to support MTP (for Android), else it will lose relevance
On Wednesday 06 February 2013 18:29:35 Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> I prefer something in between. Stable core (I couldn't care less which
> version of glibc is there, as long as it works) but with latest killer
> features for Home users.
Then use Arch or Ubuntu or OpenSuSE.
> And copying files to/from smartphone counts as a killer feature.
>
> Long-term problem :
> There must be easy way to add killer features post release.
> Example : WebM codec is super easy to install on Windows XP. Updating it's
> Media Player to v11 also gives you MTP support.
>
> On Debian (and other Linuxes) adding major features post release is
> extremely difficult. Even with debian-backports repo I had to jump through
> hoops to get WebM video working on Debian 6.0 "squeeze". (due to long chain
> of interconnected dependencies)
Squeeze has very old versions of software. If you want the latest features on
Debian, use Sid, perhaps with some packages from experimental. It will
probably break sometime though, so you need to be able to fix it.
Personally, I run Debian Sid, with KDE from experimental-snapshots, calligra,
amarok, kdevelop, apper, freetype from development sources, and KDEPIM 4.10
and Qt 4.8.4 from released sources. However I do this knowing that any of
these could easily break with an update, or it could turn out that I need
newer versions of libraries than that available in repos.
If you're not willing to do this, (K)ubuntu or arch or another similar distro
that is released often, and aimed at consumers, may be a better option for
you.
>
> For now it would be best to somehow include MTP before Debian 7 release.
>
You may be able to compile the necessary bits of KDE 4.10 from source
yourself. This may require installing versions of libraries not available in
squeeze from source.
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
> Sent from Galaxy S III
Sincerely,
Beojan Stanislaus
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