I think many of you old timers are forgetting... RPM is the reason why so many other package managers exist. Just about all other distros have tried to evaluate RPM it at one time or another in the hope of a "unified package manager", but found the format flawed beyond repair. The technical situation may have changed slightly since then, but nothing will change the bad reputation and legacy that rpm has. Quite frankly, I'm surprised anybody still uses rpm, given the much superior alternatives for package management that exist today, such as portage. Now, if a sane layout of the base filesystem on meego is too much to ask for, and forcing package maintainers to work harder just to convert to an archaic package manager is considered a smart move, you can count me gone from this community, faster than I got here.