Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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2010-02-19 , 19:50
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#180
Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
For some strange reason it says something about "your own risk" and "be prepared to reflash your device because of untested packages".
having access to big debian repositories isn't supposed to be immediately beneficial to end-users.
it makes porting popular OSS applications a hell of a lot easier, resulting in more available software.

if a program depends on a lot of libraries that can't be ported as easy as "apt-get source program && dpkg-buildpackage" inside the armel target, it just results in more work and fewer ports.
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