[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Thomas Tanner wrote:

> On 16.02.10 17:18, Pavel Rojtberg wrote:
>> actually I only care what the MeeGo version will use that is supposed to
>> run on future Nokia handhelds.
>>> Frankly, it is suicide not to switch to rpm.
> 
> you mean all .deb based distributions are doomed to fail??

Heavens no!! I strongly feel the opposite, that rpm distros are doomed to fail. debs have wider adoption and have solved lots of problems already, rpms are becoming the corporate preference, not the developer or user preference. But for this project, MeeGo, the rpm is going to be the default format. It seems silly if you want to get your software into MeeGo to spend too much time arguing because I think people will not change - certainly not the Linux Foundation who host the repos, wiki, etc.
> 
>> I think I will start a wiki page and a brainstorm vote, for keeping DEBs
>> and to collect arguments pro/ contra.
> 
> according to Quim http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=529073
> Harmattan is going to stay DEB based, despite being the first MeeGo
> implementation on Nokia devices. This is IMHO good news.
> Now we only need to convince them to stick to it even after Harmattan...

I would _love_ to see that happen.

Jeremiah