* John Reiser [27/02/2012 22:50] : > > OK, so both rpm and yum could do better: at the first mention of 'transaction', > then the documentation (manual page, ...) should specify "not ACID". It would help if you filed a bug (preferably with a patch attached). > There is a database involved, and the word 'transaction' had a decade > of precedence in the database world before rpm was written. a) Databases have been around since the late-60s and rpm was written in the early-90s. b) I just did a quick poll around my office and the consensus is that 'transaction' does not imply 'ACID'. Emmanuel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
