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Why Sailfish uses RPM, not DPKG?

asked 2014-03-18 11:23:16 +0200

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Just curiosity, what was decisive factor?

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answered 2014-03-18 11:59:12 +0200

Xeno_PL
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Last incarnation of meego (which is base for mer/Sailfish) was derivef from OpenSUSE.

Meego is merger of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin. Maemo used dpkg and Moblin used rpm.

penpen ( 2014-03-19 00:51:39 +0200 )edit

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