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Funklord is offline Funklord
2011-03-13 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Sorry, but BS. You've learned obviously anything about reading the differencies about rpm and deb and why LSB has chosen and made a decision.
yes, I've learned anything!

Originally Posted by zimon View Post
But just look in meego forum, why Nokia is not allowed to use "Meego"-name in N950 and try to guess how expensive it will be for Nokia to change from deb to rpm, and all this because Linux fragmentation in this issue, which would had easily fixed long ago by Debian and Ubuntu if they wouldn't be so stubborn.

Ask gqil how expensive it will be for Nokia and if it would had been easy, they would had done it already last year.
Huh? That's the reason I've been opposed to the whole Meego thing, why does Nokia even need it. Changing package manager to a another one which isn't better in any way is a waste of time.
It's easier just to add what ever packages that come out of meego to debian.

Just drop the fragmentation thing already, ok?

It makes me sick having to think of the amount of time developers have to spend, just because of a marketing/branding thing.

At one place I worked, one of the bosses suggested an OEM scheme for the software we used. I flat out refused to do it. A few years later somebody else did it for him.
Guess what, that boss wanted it because he was being handed money under the table, and then we started seeing the software in the wild, with vague licensing contracts. The company went bankrupt shortly after.

Why do we even need the Meego name? It's not like anyone knows about it.
If a name is that important, why not pick something known, like slackware, debian, gentoo, or ubuntu?