Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-02-15 , 22:02
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#47
Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
95% of Debian is simply Linux. Again, there has been a lot of FUD spread over the years about Debian's inherent superiority to every thing else. The facts are that with proper packagers/maintainers and RPM based system can be just as solid. (And yes, things have improved a lot since the old Red Hat up2date days.) There are no technical impediments to this choice. Yes, some of us will have to learn to package things a little differently, but the bulk of the work will be done by Nokia and they seem to be fine with doing it. So, relax it will be alright.
Again you're ignoring some very important things in ordrer to simplify. Debian systems share a lot in common with regard to *structure* of the OS to every other GNU/Linux out there *except* rpm based systems.

In the Linux world there really is RPM-based.. and then everyone else. I have built a complete Linux distribution from the Linux From Scratch and FHS guidelines and everything was normal. It looked the same as Arch, gentoo, slackware or debian.

When moving to an rpm-base everything from network config files, to system config files, to a mess of other things moved to weird locations. It's like moving from XP to Vista.. they just change stuff to change stuff. And it makes it worse that no two rpm systems changed stuff in the same way.. thery're all different.

The problem here is not specifically the RPM management (while I still belive the debian tools such as aptitude beat the rpm yum and up2date, there is Smart Package Manager which beats them all so not the point) - its the move to a *fedora* base over a *debian* base. This includes much more than a simple spec file.
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