On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Pavel Rojtberg wrote: > Am 16.02.2010 10:16, schrieb Jeremiah Foster: >> Intel and Nokia do not care about the implementation of the package system, >> they just want revenue from app stores. The upshot from all of this is that >> we are stuck with RPM, there is no going back, and technical merits or even >> perceived technical merits do not matter. > I would disagree that we are stuck with RPM. As Quim Gil posted today > Harmattan will be already called MeeGo, but still use DEB. Frankly anything > else would be lunatic of them from a technical POV. > So I think if we as a community can create enough pressure for DEB, we can > maybe keep it - there is one development cycle of time ;)
I highly doubt the Linux Foundation is going to go back on the Linux Standards Base and use .debs, but I do like your optimism. :) > My point for doing so is that switching from DEB to RPM means trashing the > last 5 years of experience with this format/ the build environment, which > is a kind of a pointless rewrite. Besides there is currently a large > momentum behind it (Ubuntu, Chrome OS). Working against it is suicide ;) I think Chrome OS is also rpm based, and I also don't think Chrome OS gets a lot of downloads, at least compared to Ubuntu. Frankly, it is suicide not to switch to rpm. And I have much more to lose with the transition than you! :) Jeremiah (current maemo debmaster)
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