[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Stuart Anderson]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremiah Foster wrote:

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> On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Pavel Rojtberg wrote:
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>> Am 16.02.2010 10:16, schrieb Jeremiah Foster:
>>> Intel and Nokia do not care about the implementation of the package system, they just want revenue from app stores. The upshot from all of this is that we are stuck with RPM, there is no going back, and technical merits or even perceived technical merits do not matter.
>> I would disagree that we are stuck with RPM. As Quim Gil posted today Harmattan will be already called MeeGo, but still use DEB. Frankly anything else would be lunatic of them from a technical POV.
>> So I think if we as a community can create enough pressure for DEB, we can maybe keep it - there is one development cycle of time ;)
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> I highly doubt the Linux Foundation is going to go back on the Linux Standards Base and use .debs, but I do like your optimism. :)

Not that the LSB only specified the RPM package format. This was done because
most distributions had a way of handling RPM packages (Debian uses alien).

The LSB does NOT mandate that the distro itself has to use RPM, only that it
be capable of correclty installing an application packaged with RPM. Debian
is LSB compliant, so any other .deb based distro should be capable of doing
the same.

Wanting to be LSB conforming does not imply that a distro must be RPM based.



                                 Stuart

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