[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Stuart Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>> 
>> 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.

Of course you are right. But be honest, do you really think these two companies are going to expend effort on supporting an apt based package manager? Do you think they are going to document using apt with rpms? Do you think they will advise new users and their own internal developers to use debs instead of rpm? 

I think bringing in a bunch of apt tools to support users who want to manage the software on their system is a worthwhile goal, and might end up improving both packaging systems, but I am a bit sanguine about "official" support for apt.

Jeremiah

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