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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-03-09 , 22:18
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#1726
Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Not using the standard is causing problems, like with Nokia now.
Perhaps I am simply confused, but Nokia's problem goes much deeper than the lack of a compatible packaging system. Packages built for openSuSE aren't guaranteed to work on Fedora or Mandriva.

Technically and practically the standard is better. So, no, they should get to work and change it already. Of course it won't be easy, but staying out of standard is bad for everyone and for the whole Linux "ecosystem" (sorry vi_ :-)
Then why are you picking a bone with Debian and the far more numerous other distributions that don't use RPM or DEB?

Remember, the LSB is not a hard standard in the Linux world. And Debian not using it (or even switching to it) would solve no extra problems in the grand scheme of things, as packaging is hardly a problem in the Linux world.