[MeeGo-dev] On deb vs rpm

[David Greaves]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:27 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> See my comment in
> http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/rpm-summit-at-the-opensuse-conference-2009/
> for some of the missing features that dpkg already has and that are
> considered for RPM.
*nod*
> 
> > > As far as I understand it, the decision was not to take RPM because of
> > > > RPM alone but as part of the build infrastructure that Moblin is
> > > > contributing to MeeGo.
> > This sounds like a myth.. see below
> 
> If it's a myth, what is the real reason then?
Well, the build infrastructure is completely format/buildsystem
independent so it simply can't be the reason.

It's like saying you chose C++ because the gcc suite compiles it.
It also compiles fortran, C etc etc

err. continued on irc