On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:42 +0000, Stephen Birch wrote: > NO!!! > > The dictator says it is done, but the majority want to use deb. Don't give > up on this, if meego truly is going to be open then it has to switch to deb > .... That is what the community wishes. > > Steve >
To be frank, there's more important things than what packaging system it uses, anda vocal minority isn't necessarily a majority. I love Debian and .deb, but what tends to make .deb repositories better than .rpm ones is the masses of Debian policy documents and their excellent QA, not the .deb format itself. It's a couple of tarballs in an `ar' archive. Big deal. If MeeGo's pushing itself up the hierarchy to work directly with upstreams rather than being a flavour of Debian, it's got the chance to make good repositories with .rpm, just as it would have the chance to make awful repositories with .deb. As for client-side tools - no doubt I'll install apt-rpm on mine. Job done. So let's get on with something more interesting - like IPv6 ;) - before people start demanding we use portage... /Nick _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
