On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Attila Csipa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maemo@csipa.in.rs">maemo@csipa.in.rs</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="font-family:'DejaVu Sans';font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;font-style:normal"><div class="im">On Monday 15 February 2010 17:55:16 Christopher Intemann wrote:<br>
> I guess that rpm is just more advanced than deb. Finally, most third party<br>
> software applicable to date is either binary or rpm, but not deb. It is<br>
> probably easier to convince developers to port their linux tools to MeeGo<br>
> if they're already familiar with the package management.<br>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br></p></div>Which third party software are you referring to ? Not trying to get into the packaging format fight, just being curious...<br>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Linux binaries, like... flash, silverlight (mono package), several google apps like chrome, google desktop/gadgets/earth/picasa...</div>
<div>I'm currently installing all my stuff via the repositories, but after having used as well Debian, SuSE and Fedora for several years, I have the impression that, if there is a binary package available for download, it would be an RPM. I've barely seen Debs for download.</div>
<div>By the way. Is Moblin using yum, yast, or anything homebrew?</div><div>Cheers,</div><div> Chris</div></div><br>