On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Chris Ricker wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, seth vidal wrote: > > > > Some people have decided to put a lot of work > > > into creating yum. There must be a reason? > > > > The crux of the issue is this. > > > > I'm a masochist. > > > > I like pain. > > If that were really true, you'd have just used apt And because my friends and colleagues insist in joking around, I'LL answer the poor fellow's question... It is because they had a vision. A vision of a simple, RPM repository-based update mechanism, usable by the wise and the foolish alike, that could reduce the workload of any rpm-based lan administrator and greatly increase the utility and security of each and every system on the lan. It came to them in a dream one night, amidst ten thousand fluttering butterflies that turned into rose petals and settled, leaving behind them a delicate aroma and a fleeting, fading glimpse of an unattainable perfection, a perfection that makes the heart ache and the soul prepare itself for transcendence. To realize some poor shadow of this vision they embarked on a holy quest that involved wrestling with serpents (python), mastering daemons (httpd), and learning far more about rpms, good and bad, yin and yang, than mortal man was meant to know. On this journey they have been cheered and jeered, blamed and praised, and have seen much of the hidden world that lies always beneath our feet and yet somehow is also joined to the heavens. They have become wise, and wisdom is always borne of much pain. This is the hidden zen message in Seth's avowal of the love of pain, because it is only through that pain that he became wise, and only this wisdom brings the sweetness and clarity of a transparently functioning linux box to the desktops of both the wise and the fools alike, the system masters of subtle intent and the humblest users with their arthritic fingers and senseless yappings. Yea, even the users of apt and the heathen worshippers of the great brass idol (microsoft) can look on in wonder at a tool that actually makes rpms function the way they were always intended to do, and makes linux/rpm systems into a dream, within a dream, within a dream... rgb > > g,d,r, > chris > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
