On 15/02/2010 19:07, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Thomas, you're getting all upset over nothing. The fact that RPM will > now be used is nothing more than politics.
I disagree. Well, if RPM was chosen because of politics, I think it's a bad decision. If it was chosen because of technical reasons, it'd have been nice to know them. My guess is just that it's a compromise (something like “we take QT from Maemo if we take RPM from Moblin”). One *technical* reason might be that RPM is part of LSB, though I'm not sure it's really a good one. > No features will be lost. I do hope so. RPM and DEB formats *are* different and don't achieve the same goals. RPM is able to do quite a lot of stuff (think file-dependencies for example) which DEB can't do (for good reasons), the opposite is true too. And, like other said, that's not only about the format and the packaging itself, but the whole infrastructure. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
