Thread: Meltemi - Lightweight Linux based os from Nokia
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zimon is offline zimon
2011-10-04 , 00:45
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#100
Originally Posted by mr_jrt View Post
...or stop taking the excuses the Redhat derivatives have for using RPMs and switch them to DEBs
Why move to technically and secure wise worse package format? Those may not had been the reasons why LSB and LinuxFoundation chose RPM, but nowadays they should be much stronger arguments than the political one that decision has been made.

Technically they are equal, but aren't, RPM supports transactions.
Secure wise they are equal, but aren't, because in practice the embedded GPG signatures in RPM is a better security policy.
google for MITM attack vulnerability
Last edited by zimon; 2011-10-04 at 01:00. Reason: s/GPS/GPG/
 

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