[MeeGo-dev] RPM vs. DEB Packaging and Distribution

[Vladimir Baus]

With Maemo, we knew that Nokia would never hide core components of the
system,
but what will happen with MeeGo, will it still be possible to use it like
any other linux
system, to look at it's internals, to gain root access, or for that matter
use terminal at all?
I personally prefer deb packages to rpm, but that is a minor issue. If that
is the only
change they intend to introduce, that's fine with me. I just hope they don't
take the
Android path...

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>wrote:

> On 17/02/2010 09:34, Vladimir Baus wrote:
> > I don't think that that will be the case. In Maemo you can build your
> > own packages and use dpkg to install it (or set up your own
> > repositories), and you can distribute those packages freely, without
> > Nokia ever knowing anything about them. As a N810 user I would be highly
> > disappointed if this were to change.
>
> And it's possible to Moblin too, afaik. So there's nothing (technical)
> which would prevent that for Meego.
>
> Maybe some vendors /will/ prevent third party apps but that's another
> story and, again, vendor-dependent (meaning, we don't have the answer,
> and Meego won't ever have it)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Yves-Alexis
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