[maemo-developers] MeeGo, unity or fragmentation?

[From: Michal Kolodziejczyk]

On 16.02.2010 08:25, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> 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).

The more precise way would be to say that moblin "is based on the RPM
format (used also by Fedora)" than "using Fedora as a base". Check out
the FAQ:
http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/faq

>> 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 it is exactly like in Moblin+Debian/Fedora case...

>> 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.

There you can read about some reasons (like "the ability to track the
license of a package as part of the spec file"):
http://iquaid.org/2008/07/25/a-word-about-intels-moblin-and-fedora/

Regards,
miko