Thread: Christmas present: Busybox 1.10.0svn for OS2007
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Zebee is offline Zebee
2008-01-04 , 05:22
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#34
Originally Posted by gnexus View Post
NO!
I've had a total change of attitude after seeing penguinbait's KDE. Since I'm mainly a KDE/RedHat/Fedora developer I've decided to hold back the code for use in an RPM to be published, possibly as part of a partial/full armel distro for the tablets using the new busybox, KDE, and other libraries. We'll see how that works out . . .

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Well, that's ambitious

Being an RPM/KDE/Fedora person myself I sorta like the idea, but how practical is it?

An entire distro is a fair bit of work - all those packages to port. Even if you use KDE for the PIM stuff (can't be worse than GPE!) what about the mapping and media things people use?

You could port RPM to the tablet, then package in whatever you feel like? How about dependencies though? I don't think either packager can handle checking the other's database for dependencies can it?

I'm going to set up to dual boot 2008 then try KDE, to see if it's usable, meaning fast enough on my 800. I'd rather like an RPM distro, I'm a lot happier using rpm as it is what I'm used to to package things, but I really dunno there's enough support for an rpm-distro.

Zebee