[MeeGo-dev] Incompatibility is a benefit? (was: Re: RPM vs DEB, the FAQ item?)

[Ben de Groot]

On 17 February 2010 00:30, Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net> wrote:
> If you require people to port *libraries* as well, inevitably, you
> will see people picking up $random_thing, porting it and its deps to
> run on MeeGo, and then wandering off and the package becoming crufty
> abandonware that ends up crippling the platform. This of course
> affects regular distros as well - if something is unmaintained, it's
> seldom good - but it will likely affect MeeGo to a greater extent
> (especially in the initial stages) simply due to not having as large a
> developer community to bootstrap off, and that is not going to lead to
> a good situation.

As I see it, this is basically a question of having a good QA policy.
And as you say, this is something that all distros deal with, and
being a small one just means you need to have a better process in
place. I don't think this should be a problem. And I'm willing to be
part of the solution.

Cheers,
-- 
Ben de Groot
Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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