There is nothing safe in our world, but somebody claims that HAM automatically removes libraries which are installed by HAM during dependency resolving. There was no any word about specific repository.
My point was that installing packages with something else than HAM is leaving the safe path of Maemo. Installing applications from extras-devel (such as Packageview and wifiinfo) is leaving the safe path of maemo.org. That's the current deal like it or not.
Dargo, do you have one of the pre-installed themes selected or a custom one? Cathy was having the same problem until she switched back to default theme