On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:59 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"><br></div>For the record, Adobe's Flash, Google's Chrome and Picasa officially offer DEBs. Moonlight is distributed as a firefox plugin, so it does not really relate to this question. Google Earth provides only a binary blob install (good luck getting rid of it or fighting through it's dependency/64bit hell). <br>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><br></p>So, again, which software are we talking about that has issues with packaging formats (either way) ? People seem to be missing the point - it's not whether DEBs or RPMs are better - the question here was why change your existing package architecture (whichever it is), i.e. what's the big thing we're (as in developer community, Maemo, or MeeGo or whatever) winning by this change ? Moblin was citing better developer and community acceptance as the reasons for the switch (I don't buy the license talk for a second), but that is theoretically exactly what Maemo brings to the table. That's why I'm puzzled why this choice went the Moblin side in the end.<br>
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<div> </div><div>Is that so? </div></div>I have not been using Debian for three or four years, but those times I found it always annoying that I could only find rpm's but not deb's of unfree/third-party software. However, since Ubuntu became a mayor linux distro in the recent years, it's very well conceivable that companies are now offering deb's as well.<div>
Sorry for any confusion if I was wrong.</div><div>Regards,</div><div> Chris</div>