[Meego-dev] Why RPM based repositories?

[Francisco]

I agree with you, It doesn't really matter .deb or .rpm. (but I still prefer
.deb)

what we really need to ensure this, is to get the community support.


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Iulian Basescu
<iulian.basescu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hy,
> using many flavors of *nix for a couple of years, I think that each one of
> them have weak and strong points.
>
> As of this thread, it's more a political problem ...
>
> MeeGo will evolve on many paths, some open, some closed, but the main
> aspect of this flavor will be how it refers to others on its medium/market
> [osx, android, w7, etc. ].
>
> *.deb , *.rpm , *.pkg ... won't matter in comparation to the somehow more
> closed projects enumerated above !
>
> If the support of the community will be strong, it will survive; if not, it
> won't :(
>
> Here, we need to seek balance to all approaches and to recover the wisdom
> of the past ;)
>
> Regards,
> indyul
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:35 PM, David Greaves <david at dgreaves.com> wrote:
>
>> Yann Droneaud wrote:
>> > Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 07:06 -0800, lfl at soeiro.com.br a écrit :
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> I'm new to this list and also new to the notion of Maemo and Moblin
>> >> merging. However, I have some doubts and would like for some
>> background,
>> >> if possible:
>> >>
>> >> 1) Why is MeeGo adopting the RPM package manager for repositories
>> instead
>> >> of Debian's?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Linux Standard Base (LSB) specify only one package format, RPM:
>> >
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base#Choice_of_RPM_package_format
>> >
>> > Linux Standard Base workgroup is hosted by the Linux Foundation:
>> > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb
>> >
>> > Meego is also a Linux Foundation hosted workgroup:
>> > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/meego
>> >
>> > You can't ask the Linux Foundation to use a "non-standard" package
>> > format (regarding LSB) for one of its projects. It would be rather odd.
>>
>> Agreed - and tbh, the decision (for MeeGo at least) is made.
>>
>> I wonder if this would be a good time to identify some of the areas where
>> .deb
>> or .opkg provides features that rpm doesn't (particularly in the smaller
>> system
>> space) and to extend rpm in a rational and considered way.
>>
>> Seriously, what does .deb have that .rpm doesn't?
>>
>> David
>>
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