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Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
I better to give you an example - consider the possibility of ABSENCE of any repository package management. Would Nokia chose a different policy? - definitely YES.
Definitely NO The policy is that no external source shall replace system libs/components because that would make QA pointless. RPM, DEB, tar.gz, .bin, apt, yum, cp+mv, doesn't matter.

PS obviously WE can avoid these policies with things like fmtxfaker, custom kernels, etc, but Nokia won't, and on things of this caliber, that's what counts.
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