Thread: Maemo + Moblin = MeeGo
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2010-02-23 , 18:47
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#495
Originally Posted by rm42 View Post
and because people used to grab RPMs from all over the place that would break their setup. There is nothing technical that prevents and RPM based distro to be as solid as a Deb based one.
Agreed. One thing that people sometime missed is that .deb format / dpkg tools are mostly used in one family of Linux distribution, i.e. Debian and its derivatives. In contrast, rpm format and tools are used in many major distributions which are derivatives of any single distributions, e.g. Red Hat, SUSE, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, etc. Therefore if you try to get rpm files and install them without checking each rpm file what distribution it for, you will get quite a mess.