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MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

Posted Feb 17, 2010 6:11 UTC (Wed) by ajk (subscriber, #6607)
In reply to: MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin by ras
Parent article: MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

> It also means Debian's package repository, which is the largest on the planet, will be lost to the community.

You ought to be able to run Debian in chroot no matter what the underlying system is, as long as it's built on top of the Linux kernel on a supported ISA and you can get root access. (As far as I can tell, this is how native Debian packages are used on Maemo even now.)


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MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

Posted Feb 18, 2010 0:08 UTC (Thu) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

Some people do use chroots, yes.

Other people take Debian source packages and recompile them in Maemo's SDK,
producing native Maemo debs.

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