On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Attila Csipa <ma...@csipa.in.rs> wrote:
> > For the record, Adobe's Flash, Google's Chrome and Picasa officially offer > DEBs. Moonlight is distributed as a firefox plugin, so it does not really > relate to this question. Google Earth provides only a binary blob install > (good luck getting rid of it or fighting through it's dependency/64bit > hell). > > > So, again, which software are we talking about that has issues with > packaging formats (either way) ? People seem to be missing the point - it's > not whether DEBs or RPMs are better - the question here was why change your > existing package architecture (whichever it is), i.e. what's the big thing > we're (as in developer community, Maemo, or MeeGo or whatever) winning by > this change ? Moblin was citing better developer and community acceptance as > the reasons for the switch (I don't buy the license talk for a second), but > that is theoretically exactly what Maemo brings to the table. That's why I'm > puzzled why this choice went the Moblin side in the end. > > > Is that so? I have not been using Debian for three or four years, but those times I found it always annoying that I could only find rpm's but not deb's of unfree/third-party software. However, since Ubuntu became a mayor linux distro in the recent years, it's very well conceivable that companies are now offering deb's as well. Sorry for any confusion if I was wrong. Regards, Chris
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