That's pure speculation but it's the only rationale I found so far about the rpm choice.
Quoting from a lwn.net comment: --- reference: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2068665492.html: Hohndel was quoted as saying that the move to Fedora was largely a "technical decision based on the desire to adopt RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) for package management" instead of Ubuntu's Debian DEB extension. RPM offers the advantage of containing license information, Hohndel was said to have noted, thereby enabling developers to create collections of software by license type or exclude software by license type. --- reference: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nj... "One of the examples cited by Dirk was the ability for RPMs to easily identify the license of packages and being able to build an environment including or excluding a particular license type." --- Cheers, Fathi _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
