[maemo-developers] RPM vs. Deb (was Re: MeeGo)

[From: Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 15/02/2010 19:07, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Thomas, you're getting all upset over nothing. The fact that RPM will
> now be used is nothing more than politics.

I disagree. Well, if RPM was chosen because of politics, I think it's a
bad decision. If it was chosen because of technical reasons, it'd have
been nice to know them. My guess is just that it's a compromise
(something like “we take QT from Maemo if we take RPM from Moblin”).

One *technical* reason might be that RPM is part of LSB, though I'm not
sure it's really a good one.

> No features will be lost.

I do hope so. RPM and DEB formats *are* different and don't achieve the
same goals. RPM is able to do quite a lot of stuff (think
file-dependencies for example) which DEB can't do (for good reasons),
the opposite is true too.

And, like other said, that's not only about the format and the packaging
itself, but the whole infrastructure.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis