Thread: MeeGo-Harmattan HE
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-05-28 , 16:48
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#155
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Even if MeeGo from meego.com is available for the N900 and shares an API compatible layer, Ovi Maps and other closed binaries in that MeeGo-Harmattan will be available only as debs. Not easy to make them run on top of plain MeeGo (rpm and slightly different middleware), I would say.
Thanks, makes a little more sense.

But is there a way to prevent a deb from being extracted and repackaged?

I mean.. if Ovi Maps is out there in a deb we can get our hands on - it should be packageable to RPM.

But.. the middleware brings up a good point I guess. If the drivers/software/whatever that interfaces to the actual GPS device, or the telephone stack is different (I doubt you can answer this, is ofono whats going to be used in Harmattan - or will it be like Maemo 5?) - then there may be some software that just flat out won't work. It could probably be ported and "run".. but fail to actually do anything because something important is missing.
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