[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Christopher Intemann]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:

>
> For the record, Adobe's Flash, Google's Chrome and Picasa officially offer
> DEBs. Moonlight is distributed as a firefox plugin, so it does not really
> relate to this question. Google Earth provides only a binary blob install
> (good luck getting rid of it or fighting through it's dependency/64bit
> hell).
>
>
> So, again, which software are we talking about that has issues with
> packaging formats (either way) ? People seem to be missing the point - it's
> not whether DEBs or RPMs are better - the question here was why change your
> existing package architecture (whichever it is), i.e. what's the big thing
> we're (as in developer community, Maemo, or MeeGo or whatever) winning by
> this change ? Moblin was citing better developer and community acceptance as
> the reasons for the switch (I don't buy the license talk for a second), but
> that is theoretically exactly what Maemo brings to the table. That's why I'm
> puzzled why this choice went the Moblin side in the end.
>
>
>
Is that so?
I have not been using Debian for three or four years, but those times I
found it always annoying that I could only find rpm's but not deb's of
unfree/third-party software. However, since Ubuntu became a mayor linux
distro in the recent years, it's very well conceivable that companies are
now offering deb's as well.
Sorry for any confusion if I was wrong.
Regards,
 Chris
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