Again, switching to rpm means nothing more than adding a .spec file to the source tar.gz with all the patches that come in the source .deb, and rebuilding the package with "rpmbuild -ba package.spec". Nothing more, nothing less. You can do that in linux from scratch, if you are so inclined. And yes, building a debian system with rpm just requires adjusting the helper install scripts, which mostly aren't required in rpm.
May be there will be reasons to criticize meego, we'll see in due time, like bloat, bugginess, lack of optimization, whatever, but please, stop the package zealotrism, that's going nowhere.