Active Topics
-
Not clickbait "NOKIA STILL MAKING PHONES, BUT FOR INDUSTRIAL USES" (0)
to Competitors by deutch1976 - 3 hrs, 29 mins ago -
Phone Camera Competition April 2021: "Funny & Foolish" (34)
to General by nonsuch - 12 hrs, 51 mins ago -
What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 20XX? (78)
to Competitors by clort - 1 day, 11 hrs ago -
Unofficial Storage for camera phone competition... (62)
to General by catbus - 1 day, 20 hrs ago -
Maemo-Leste pre-alpha announcement (512)
to Maemo 7 / Leste by nonsuch - 2 days, 21 hrs ago -
The Intel RealSense Smartphone prototype (0)
to Competitors by n950 - 2 days, 23 hrs ago -
Maemo Leste Playground (57)
to Maemo 7 / Leste by clort - 3 days, 21 hrs ago -
A Palm OS thread ... and a thank you to the community (23)
to Alternatives by bradvesp - 4 days, 20 hrs ago - more...
geneven |
2010-03-13
, 18:40
|
|
Posts: 5,795 |
Thanked: 3,151 times |
Joined on Feb 2007
@ Agoura Hills Calif
|
#31
|
Originally Posted by fpp
Yes, the powers that be make the decision, and we are told to accept it in the spirit of compromise. Very democratic.
|
|
2010-03-13
, 19:03
|
|
Posts: 6 |
Thanked: 2 times |
Joined on Mar 2010
@ Espoo
|
#32
|
Perhaps there is one feature that might count in making the decision between the two: delta-rpm. That would vastly decrease the time taken for updates especially on smart phones.
Last edited by lassizci; 2010-03-13 at 19:11.
Last edited by lassizci; 2010-03-13 at 19:11.
|
|
2010-03-15
, 15:55
|
|
Posts: 3,841 |
Thanked: 1,079 times |
Joined on Nov 2006
|
#33
|
Originally Posted by lassizci
The package formats are actually entirely different.
At least feature-wise it shouldn't be that sad rpm is going to be chosen over deb. The package format itself isn't all that different. rpm just isn't kosher for some hippies
What's not so different is how it works as seen from an end user's point of view. So end users are fine in any case. The developers may still want a say, because from the developer's point of view there are differences that matters, depending on what you do.
__________________
N800/OS2007|N900/Maemo5
-- Metalayer-crawler delenda est.
-- Current state: Fed up with everything MeeGo.
N800/OS2007|N900/Maemo5
-- Metalayer-crawler delenda est.
-- Current state: Fed up with everything MeeGo.
|
|
2010-03-16
, 17:02
|
|
Posts: 6 |
Thanked: 2 times |
Joined on Mar 2010
@ Espoo
|
#34
|
Originally Posted by TA-t3
I'm not speaking entirely from end-user's perspective. Under the hood those really are different but that's beyond the APIs. Having packaged software in both formats my personal opinion is still that those two aren't all that different at least from package maintainer's perspective (you know one, you'll learn all of them in a day). Of course the transition requires work thet shouldn't be overlooked.
The package formats are actually entirely different.
What's not so different is how it works as seen from an end user's point of view. So end users are fine in any case. The developers may still want a say, because from the developer's point of view there are differences that matters, depending on what you do.
