Hi Carsten,
I've tried to summarize their arguments for an incompatible distribution earlier in this thread
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=124
http://wiki.meego.com/Packaging also contains some IMHO very weak arguments.

Could you please elaborate on what you mean with "mobile setting"?
I think the devices MeeGo will run on will have at least 256MB rootfs and
several GBs of extra flash.
Could you give some concrete examples of standard packages which had to
be modified to work on such a platform?
Documentation is often in separate optional packages or could be removed by something
like docpurge. The /opt problem could be solved by keeping / on eMMC and symlinking
system files from NAND. Optimizations could be send upstream.
So except for the set of packages, what does really need be modified for a mobile setting?