[maemo-developers] rpm vs. deb and "universal binaries/packages"

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Tuesday 16 February 2010 12:17:09 Christopher Intemann wrote:
> common on netbooks. Of course, it is possible let the repository autodetect
> the platform requesting a package and supply the matching one. On the other

That is exactly how repositories in the debian world work for many years now 
:)

> hand, Apple had a great success story when they almost seamlessly switched
> from PPC to Intel by introducing their universal binaries.

It's a different story. At the time of that switch, there was no central 
repository of software, so there was a need to make it possible for 3rd party 
developers to generate universal binaries and not futz with separate 
architectures. The concept of autobuilders and repositories makes this 
somewhat irrelevant - already, when you upload something to the autobuilder, 
it gets both ARM and X86 builds, regardless of what your original target or 
host machine was.


Regards,
Attila
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