[maemo-developers] MeeGo, unity or fragmentation?

[From: Marcin Juszkiewicz]

On pon 15 lut 2010 21:49:14 CET, Pavel Rojtberg <lists at rojtberg.net> wrote:

> > I guess the first MeeGo release will be
> > widely based on Maemo but use rpm as packaging format.

Maemo maybe is longer on a market but will rather not be a base - will rather provide applications and phone stuff.

> In general I think the package format needs more discussion as it also
> implies a rebase of the distribution. 

There is no space for discussion - we are community not company. Moblin already has OBS working for building software and they decided about using Fedora as base over 18 months ago (used Ubuntu before).

> Up to now Maemo was happily
> syncing from Debian, which obviously wont work with rpm any more.

Please... Maemo was not syncing with Debian. It just took few updated components from it.

> So there must be at least a HUGE advantage coming with RPM to justify
> the efford to switch.

Less work for nokia on base system as Moblin provides nice working, maintained one instead of bunch of random versions used in Maemo5.