Why RPM and not DEB?
 

According to the FAQ, MeeGo will be based on RPM packages and not Debian. WTF? Why would they make that choice? The ONE thing Debian got going for itself is the package handling system which is superior to anything else I have ever seen. Why would they choose to give that up? That simply does not make sense.

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I agree totally.

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I'm curious about this as well. It was the biggest/only disappointment I had regarding the MeeGo announcement.

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Differences please?:)
For a noob.

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you really couldn't go on without that smiley any longer, so you had to link externally... :D

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Superior? That's a joke! Software which ASKs me about permission to delete some packages if I just DOWNLOAD yet-another-package, and keep me nervous up to last point presenting that it installs yet-another-package...

BTW, give me please the command line - how to download a SINGLE package from repository and doesn't pull all depending packages? I hesitate to experiment with it because ... see the previous paragraph.

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bring back some good memories about mandriva