Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 à 08:47 +0200, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> On Thursday 9. September 2010 08.39.29 Attila Csipa wrote:
> > Let's take a step back for a moment here, and take a look at Ubuntu. Look,
> > there are plenty of variants of it, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, XUbuntu, etc. These
> > have their very different presets and default packages but DO retain
> > compatibility across Ubuntu repositories, even with universe, multiverse
> > and all. We have thus arrived to the bottom line - what *IS* MeeGo's
> > stance on people requiring libraries or components not present in Core ?
> > Let's try to see if there a solution that keeps Core from bloating as much
> > as it keeps the apps themselves for bloating.
> 
> I think we need to understand how those variants will work first.
> 
> I had thought, so far, that any variants would be simple rebuilds of a few 
> packages, adding patches or replacing code. The great majority of the 
> packages 
> would stay untouched. In the biggest change I can think of, someone would 
> recompile all packages with different compilers (ICC, whatever else) or 
> different flags, such as turning SSSE3 off.
> 
> That would mean we still have the same package structure: same package names, 
> versions and releases, same distribution of files per packages.
> 
> So how will SUSE MeeGo work? Will it be based on SUSE, or MeeGo?

SUSE MeeGo is based on MeeGo.

Smeegol (MeeGo port for openSUSE) is based on openSUSE.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcro...@novell.com>
Novell

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