On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent: >> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being >> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away. > > One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool > would be (a) worked on by more than one person, and (b) sufficiently > documented that the project could be taken over. > > My second point seems to be seriously lacking on Fedora. While I can't > personally speak to documentation regarding software coding, the > documentation for operating some software is sorely lacking. There are > some distros where good documentation is a prerequisite to software > being accepted. > Was that not the case for YUM? It was worked on by more than one person and while I don't know what the developer documentation for it is like the end user documentation had been around for a long time. The case, at least as Ralf put it, is that with the lead developer's (tragic) death the people working on it decided to build something else instead. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
