On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:34 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:28:30 +0000, Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Any reason why people hate it? I really can't see any downsides to > > this as an enhancement to the current system. > > Perhaps.. this is a good point for you to go talk to the zen/Red > Carpet developers about their experiences trying to support the patch > rpm feature. FWIW: SuSE has abandoned patch-rpms. They now (IIRC, since SuSE-9.2), use delta-rpms (cf. ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/9.2/deltas). Both, patch- and delta- rpms are reported to be usable with apt. Ralf
