man who created Cydia; Jay “Saurik” Freeman seems to be hard at work on what he calls a “full package index,” a centralized database of Cydia packages. One of the first features based on this fundamental restructuring is now live on Cydia’s homepage: the new “Manage Account” option. There is a simple way to determine what you have purchased on the Cydia Store, which gives you a quick and easy way to re-install your apps, tweaks, and themes after a restore. There are some caveats that you need to be aware of. The first one being, if you originally purchased your package through RockYourPhone, it may or may not show up in your “Installable Purchases” list unless you have explicitly linked the two accounts. As Saurik mentioned, he “tried very hard to automatically connect together accounts ‘as if by magic’ sometimes you will need to manually associate your Rock account.” There are buttons on all apps that were on Rock enabling this, but if you haven’t taken the opportunity to do this, you can use the Transfer Rock Licenses page on Cydia to link your accounts.

You can checkout the screenshots of the Manage Account section below:

Another thing to keep in mind here is that Cydia only uses Amazon and PayPal accounts for payment authorization, not login – so if you are one of the many who use Facebook and Google accounts – you will have to create another account for payment. Furthermore, any item that uses its own payment system outside of Cydia won’t be showing up on this list, even though it may be marked as “Package Already Purchased” on its product page. These changes are all a part of Cydia that will be ongoing. With the proliferation of packages, the default repositories have have ended up with a lot of corrupt and/or damaged package files. One positive side effect of the new index is that those files have gotten weeded out. Jay’s continuing his efforts to make Cydia work for everybody. If you like many people out there, appreciate what he has done, consider making a donation on paypal for him.

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[Source: @saurik]

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