levi
Still fresh, damnit!
It's not a sources.list type of repo no, it's more like an app store. The pyra will have a command line and probably a graphical tool to let you search and install apps and their dependencies, but I think they'll be installed as a set of .dbp files, probably on an inserted SD card rather than part of the persistent root filesystem. Assuming they're like the Pandora's PND files a little, they'll actually be mountable squashfs isos.
They're a little like docker containers, but instead of containing all the libs and so on they need, they're designed to use libs from the base filesystem as well as any extra ones they ship. But it means you can eject the SD card and still boot the OS.
It remains to be shown how actual software authors will decide to release stuff, either as a dbp or push it into the debian repos for installation to the OS on the internal flash. On the Pandora we got a PND for Firefox for example - I'm not sure how much sense it makes to have someone publishing firefox as a DBP when we can just use iceweasel, updated by someone in the wider Debian community rather than waiting for someone from our community to build a version. But some people won't want the flash traffic that a browser like that will have on their flash chip (although on the Pyra, that can be bypassed using a microSD card at least, if it does die on us).
They're a little like docker containers, but instead of containing all the libs and so on they need, they're designed to use libs from the base filesystem as well as any extra ones they ship. But it means you can eject the SD card and still boot the OS.
It remains to be shown how actual software authors will decide to release stuff, either as a dbp or push it into the debian repos for installation to the OS on the internal flash. On the Pandora we got a PND for Firefox for example - I'm not sure how much sense it makes to have someone publishing firefox as a DBP when we can just use iceweasel, updated by someone in the wider Debian community rather than waiting for someone from our community to build a version. But some people won't want the flash traffic that a browser like that will have on their flash chip (although on the Pyra, that can be bypassed using a microSD card at least, if it does die on us).