On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 08:52 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > RH has the ability to change this at any time. > > ability? yes. willingness? no. > > > > It is not - RH has had no problems in adding yum support and has no > > problem in adding and removing other packages at any time at RH's free > > will. > > Do you know why they had no issue adding yum support? B/c it could be > covered internally. If it broke and I wasn't around to fix it - they > could take care of it. > > 100+ lines of C++ they were not interested in maintaining. How comes, FE/fedora.us is able to maintain it? I know apt's code is ... ... leaves a lot to be desired, but it doesn't require that much effort to maintain the package. > > For example instead of adding yum and keeping up2date, RH could have > > tried to help apt. - IMO, this is all politics and not at all > > technically motivated. > > IMO you don't know what you're talking about. I guess, I do ... I spent way too much time with rpmlib and apt. Ralf
