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These are the TODO items for the Haiku '''Package Management'''.
==== packagefs ====
**If necessary, add a caching mechanism to speed up mounting it.
==== Package Daemon ====
**Complete support for extracting and updating settings files: Merge support and user feedback are still missing.
**Add user notification/interaction support for initial verification (on start-up).
**Support packages being copied to the <tt>packages</tt> directory. Currently only moving works.
==== Package building ====
**Define packaging guidelines and create a tool to check packages against those.
***Status: Here's the [[PackageManagement/PackagingPolicy| wiki page]] defining the policy. It's still a work in progress. haikuporter has some policy checking built in already.
==== Package kit/manager ====
**Add system update support.
***Status: Mostly functional in pkgman (<tt>pkgman full-sync</tt>), but unsupported in HaikuDepot.
==== Boot loader ====
**Safe mode/recovery options:
- Disable packages installed in home.
==== Package/package repository format ====
**Add localization support. [http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-depot-web/Title-localization,18 More] [http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-depot-web/Title-localization,29 info].
**Add support for repository keys (public/private) and package signing/check sums, so that it is possible to verify that data retrieved from a repository have not been tampered with.
**Add package sizes to repository. Since there are plans to support xz (or other high-ratio formats) compressed uncompressed packages for download that are recompressed for installation, we probably need to discriminate between download and installation sizes.
**Add support for a faster compression format (e.g. [https://code.google.com/p/lz4/ lz4]). As it turns out, the currently used zlib compression is rather slow (slower than reading uncompressed data from a slow HD).
**Add MIME info for types supported by packaged applications (and sniffer rules?) to the package attributes.
==== Miscellaneous ====
**Add MIME directory watching to registrar, so it can update the MIME DB caches when packages are de-/activated.
**Get rid of post_install scripts. Do that in the build system.
**Get rid of UserBootscript. Start the scripts in "~/config/settings/boot/launch" from Bootscript instead.
**Update Installer.