Since you have already sent the email, all those requests that make sense are
in one way or another on the list of RFEs I referred to. If you are missing
something there, feel free to let me know.
Thanks
Jan
On 22. 5. 2013 at 22:18:58, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [This is a copy of an email I sent to an internal Red Hat list last month]
>
> In no particular order:
>
> (1) Yum should not be so slow. In particular "yum install" takes ages
> compared to "apt-get install". I don't want to argue about how yum
> has to download metadata or whatever, the fact of the matter is the
> yum experience is slow and the apt experience is faster. Play with
> Debian some time to see what I mean.
>
> (2) DNF's dependency resolver should be the default.
>
> (3) RPM's spec file format needs to be redone using a Real Parser. At
> the moment it has all sorts of strange corner cases (for example, how
> to define a macro containing an arch-dependent list?). It'd be a good
> opportunity to fix brokenness such as "global" meaning "define", lack
> of direct support for configuration flags, writing "0%{?rhel}",
> complexity of non-trivial %setup's, etc.
>
> (4) Get rid of %{bindir} etc. There's no need for it. It didn't even
> help during UsrMove, the one time ever that it plausibly might have helped.
>
> (5) Almost all %pre/%post scripts need to be eliminated. There's no
> reason that RPM can't detect when a shared library is being installed.
>
> Related to this, things like users/groups/services should be written
> declaratively, not imperatively:
>
> %need-user kvm.kvm
> %need-service nfsd.service
>
> and have RPM work out how to implement it most efficiently.
>
> (6) It should be possible to install into a chroot, and this should be
> a supported configuration. Needed by LXC.
>
> (7) %changelog section of RPM should be abandoned. Instead, you
> should only have to write a changelog once (ideally in the upstream
> VCS, which is then propagated everywhere it is needed).
>
> Developers or packagers may also need to write summary notes for each
> release, but again they should only have to be written once.
>
> (8) Base packages like 'filesystem', 'setup' should include
> everything. At the moment mock contains extra rules for device files
> and things like that, for no reason I can understand. (See
> mock/backend.py '_setupDev' function).
>
> (9) Get rid of yum's pretend "transactions". Either implement real,
> ACID transactions where the filesystem allows it, or don't pretend.
>
> (10) Get rid of multilib, /usr/lib64 etc and copy what Debian/Ubuntu
> are doing.
>
> (11) Make it easier for yum to be consumed from other programs. DNF
> fixes this.
>
> (12) Suggests/Recommends.
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