Top-level package names, UX questions

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 16/03/15 12:38, Martin Albisetti wrote:
> I think mvo's argument is so you could rely just on the packages to
> reproduce a working system. Otherwise you would need to copy over the
> installed packages + extra metadata obtained from the store on
> download/install.

Conversely, it means we have to validate that packages don't tell fibs
about what we think is official, and we have to get both parties to
change their package if we want to change an alias. I'd be inclined to
treat the alias info as a separate bit of content which the device
obtains out of band.

Mark