Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-02-19 , 20:03
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#182
Originally Posted by egoshin View Post
Exactly!



Actually - NO. If you want to port, there is no difference where you get the sources. In most cases you get it's last version from sourceforge or application web site and that would be in .tar file.

The only exclusion - if you port a system maintenance application which works in the same model as your debian-based system AND your window manager. So, Gnome vs KDE plays role but DEB vs RPM - not.
If a certain package required changes to compile on ARM/ARMEL and debian has already done that for us.. we can simply take the debian deb and repackage the binaries.. or grab the sources from debian with the changes.

I remember having to modify a few things to get KDE4 to compile right for debian on the N810... this was before debian had ARM ports in their repo's for it.

So.. having a major distribution supporting your architecture certainly does help with porting... however - there's no reason one can't use the debian sources in this case and build an RPM instead.
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