Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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nightfire is offline nightfire
2010-02-15 , 21:23
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Originally Posted by ewan View Post
It would certainly help your case if people would just stop disagreeing with it, wouldn't it. But they probably won't because you're just plain wrong. Maemo may use the deb packaging format but it is not Debian. It does not follow Debian policy. It does not use Debian packages. It does not use Debian mirrors. It is not a 'no-compromise GPL-compatible license and OSS system baseline' (though, neither is Debian).

We're talking about the packaging format. Deb and RPM are equivalent.
Absolutely untrue.

Maemo is a Debian derivative in the same way Ubuntu is. They are not bound by Debian policy, no.. but it is counterproductive and expensive to stray far from mainline.

Of course it will happen, but the fact is 90% of Maemo is simply Debian, plus Nokia software, patches and configuration.

It's the same way with the kernel. Very few people use Linux-proper; they use a kernel provided by their vendor. But it's still Linux. It's still 99.9% mainline, and each new version that's released is repatched, recertified, and released. The further from mainline, the more work it is for the vendor.

And as someone quite experienced with both APT/dpkg and up2date/RPM (admittedly not yum), both from a user and developer's perspective, I respectfully disagree that they're equal.
 

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