I used to worry about the Meego vs Harmattan debacle in the same way.
Not any longer. And the main reason is that I've found Meego _itself_ to be even more inconsistent.

Meego on the days we started to know what the Harmattan stack would look like is at least as different from today's Meego stack as those days' Harmattan stack was. At this point, I'm willing to say that the entire DEB vs RPM difference is a minimal nuisance when it is at stake even the way applications will be spawned.

So I bet Harmattan is an example of the Meego-ish things that will come instead of the outdated mess many people believe it to be.


Either way. There is clearly a plan to deal with all of the Meego inconsistencies between platforms which is to do the core logic once and implement one UI per platform.

And us slightly lower-level guys where already pretty much tied to the Harmattan way of life whatever Meego came up to be, so no worries either...