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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-03-09 , 21:47
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#1721
Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Distributions, like Debian and Ubuntu don't take it serious enough.
Fragmentation is only a problem in the binary, closed source world. Diverging source trees only result in more work for the one maintaining the divergent tree.

But the consequences can be catastrophic like that Nokia couldn't get Meego ready because its Meego people postponed develop rpm-support to UX and to Ovi and now even N950 won't be allowed to use word "Meego" because it is not Meego-compliant.
More like, Nokia decided to move on with Maemo 6 instead of migrating over the MeeGo, which they thought wouldn't be complete at the time. Silly, and poorly timed, but they were already in a bad spot and then Elop came along.

Eventually if Nokia goes to bankrupt, Linux fragmentation (and Debian) are one of the reasons.
No. This is complete and utter nonsense of the purest form.

Debian's stubbornness not to switch to LSB-standard rpm-package management, which is technically better (transactions) and practically more secure (embedded GPG), is embarrassing.
No, they've got their own way of doing things and it's not shown itself to be lacking. You may disagree, but then it comes down to you saying "they're doing it bad and wrong because I don't like it" and your technical arguments have to deal with Debian's success regardless of whatever flaws there may be in the packaging system, all of which could be fixed.
 

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