[maemo-developers] MeeGo, unity or fragmentation?

[From: Christopher Intemann]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Pavel Rojtberg <lists at rojtberg.net> wrote:

>  Am 15.02.2010 21:32, schrieb Christopher Intemann:
>
>  Since Maemo is already more mature than Moblin (IMHO) and does already
>> provide a telephony interface, I guess the first MeeGo release will be
>> widely based on Maemo but use rpm as packaging format.
>>
> this is kind of a cotradiction - if Maemo is more mature, why should one
> change the package management of the less mature solution?
>
> In general I think the package format needs more discussion as it also
> implies a rebase of the distribution. Up to now Maemo was happily syncing
> from Debian, which obviously wont work with rpm any more.
>
> So there must be at least a HUGE advantage coming with RPM to justify the
> efford to switch.
>
>
Well, I'm using Fedora on my desktop, so rpm is just fine for me...
There seems to be an Fedora/ARM port available:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
However, since I'm not very familiar with that architecture, I can't say
anything about the status compared to Debian/ARM. I have, however, always
had the impression, that Fedora/RedHat/SuSE (the rpm-based distros) were
rather targeting business users, while Debian was ment for personal users or
kernel hackers in the first line. And, I wasn't very amused when I had to
compile several security updates and do the patches on some Debian boxes by
myself when those Debian maintainers were having arguments and were not
updating the repositories some time ago. However, I'm aware that the Debian
community is probably the biggest contributor to Linux. You're right, even
if it does not bother me very much, Maemo merging into MeeGo implies a
change from Debian to Fedora, if you want to say it that way. This will
probably a big loss for the Debian/ARM project. By the way: Which, if at
all, package management does Android use?
Regards,
 Chris
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