[MeeGo-dev] RPM vs DEB, the FAQ item?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Quoting Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com>:
> (But if you are starting over, why use rpm or dpkg?  Aren't there better
> package managers out there by now that are more suited for 'embedded'
> devices?  For me, the choice of upstream determines the choice of
> package format, but if your upstream are source tarballs (or git tags),
> you can choose the package format freely, no?)

I'd say for *cross-development*, Gentoo / Portage (ebuilds -  
essentially bash scripts and .tbz2 tarballs for binaries) might be  
superior to .dsc/.deb or .srpm/.rpm. But you sure don't want to  
recompile a package from source on a handheld or netbook for a  
security update - you have to have binaries, repositories and a  
dependency infrastructure anyway. So why not use Debian (apt), Fedora  
(yum) or openSUSE (zypper) package management?

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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