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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
Not really, I think. It's never been safe to install binary packages from one distribution on another, and despite the large volume of Debian debs available for ARM no-one should be installing them on a Maemo system (with the exception of things like Easy Debian, obviously). There's no particular reason to think that it would be any harder to MeeGo-ify an RPM than it already is to Maemo-ize a deb. In either case you're going to have to rebuild it for the target OS at the very least, and given the UI differences probably take on some more proper porting work.
True, true. Anyway, point is there will be sufficient combined resources available now to simply overwhelm any problems. And plenty of motivation to use them to slow down the iPhone/Android stampede.
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