On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 11:58 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > 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? > > Fedora.us has/had an upstream apt-rpm developer (some weird masochist > sharing my mail-address :) maintaining it and writing all sorts of weird > Lua-extensions to it to better fit the world of FC, external kernel-module > packages and such. You know, that I know :-) I definitely appreciate this. > > I know apt's code is ... ... leaves a lot to be desired, but it doesn't > > require that much effort to maintain the package. > > Maintaining the package ain't hard, That's what I assume. It's just a package, not much different from others, with bugs, deficiencies and "uniquenesses" of it's own. Nothing more, nothing less. > but developing apt-rpm into various > directions required by FC (multilib, ACK, that's apt's main deficiency. > new repodata format) IMO, this is more a matter of politics and willingness, but a technical requirement. Technically, I don't see any need for apt to adopt yum's repodata format. Politically, this requirement is introduced by RH not wanting to add apt-repositories and fedora.us apparently being unable to set up complete repositories. If apt-repositories are cleverly set up, the additional overhead they introduce in addition to the original files becomes more or less negligible. BTW: Even SuSE is available with apt. I wonder why they don't have the multilib issue - I guess they don't ship multilibs :) Ralf
