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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 ``packages`` directory. Currently only
moving works.
Package building
================
- Define packaging guidelines and create a tool to check packages against those.
- Status: Here's the `wiki page`_ defining the policy. It's still a work in
progress. haikuporter has some policy checking built in already.
.. _wiki page: PackagingPolicy.rst
Package kit/manager
===================
- Add system update support.
- Status: Mostly functional in pkgman (``pkgman full-sync``), but unsupported
in HaikuDepot.
Boot loader
===========
- Safe mode/recovery options:
- Disable packages installed in home.
Package/package repository format
=================================
- Add localization support. More_ info_.
.. _More: http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-depot-web/Title-localization,18
.. _info: http://www.freelists.org/post/haiku-depot-web/Title-localization,29
- Add support for repository keys (public/private) and package
signing/checksums, 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. lz4_). As it turns out,
the currently used zlib compression is rather slow (slower than reading
uncompressed data from a slow HD).
.. _lz4: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/
- 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.