[maemo-developers] MeeGo, unity or fragmentation?

[From: Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 15/02/2010 22:26, Christopher Intemann wrote:

> 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.

That's not really the point. Maemo 5 uses (outdated) sources from Debian
Etch, but they are rebuilt anyway (debian armel is built for armv4t to
retain compatibility, dropping speed improvements from armv7)

 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.

Imho that's just an impression, because Suse/Redhat are commercial
players and you use RHEL/SLES with support.

 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.

What exactly are you talking about? (though it's not the correct place
to troll distro, we were talking packaging format). In other news, I'm
still not sure how those “security updates” are handled in maemo (they
seem not be). Don't know at all for Moblin.

 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.

Like I said above, Maemo doesn't use directly Debian armel. They do use
Debian package but with huge modifications and rebuilt.

 By the way: Which, if at all, package management does Android use?

Jar stuff, I guess.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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