Evening folks, On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote: > I know I'm opening up Pandoras box here but what the heck, it's Friday and > I'm feeling slightly bored... looks like you've the wrong job...maybe we should switch ;-) > The more specific you can be, the better - "make it not suck" isn't > productive. Of course there's no way everything can be done, we want the > next major release out before end of the decade... Also this is not a > voting where most votes guarantee implementation, but consider it your > chance to be heard. I'm listening... :) when reading your ideas or how ever you're calling it, it looks as you would like to come up with the same roadmap rpm5.org already has - but just nearly two month later. And when reading rpm5-devel from the last two month, you're proposing more or less the same ideas, the rpm5 team and developers already talked about; read yourself: - http://rpm5.org/roadmap/ - http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/ But I've also one wish regarding the features of rpm.org: Let rpmrc die as soon as possible, please. As you're also at the rpm5-devel mailing list, you should know what I'm talking about here, don't you? On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, dragoran wrote: > arch requires and provides ... to end the endless multilib discussions ;) > should be automatic until the packager say Requires: foo.arch IIRC this feature is already since beginning of May 2007 in rpm5.org, try or e.g. look at http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=7070. On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Till Maas wrote: > I am missing "soft dependencies", e.g. the possibility to make a package > suggest which other packages may enhance it, e.g. with plugins. Afaik in > debian packages it is called "Suggests:". AFAIK, this is part of rpm5.org since end of October 2005 as "Suggests:" and "Enhances:", just read http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=6089 and also http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=6111, PLD Linux wrote a patch to use these features within yum, but yum upstream refuses this patch without a real answer. On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Matthias Clasen wrote: > A working %posttrans or equivalent. What is broken/not working at %posttrans? On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Matthias Clasen wrote: > Another thing I forgot: I'd love if rpm could become smart enough in > handling directories, so that we don't need to add tons of artifical > dependencies just to manually manage directory ownership. Hum? Could you give more details regarding this? Are you thinking about auto-manage ownership of directories? I don't think, this is a good idea, but rpm5.org is able to tell you orphaned parent directories and dangling symlinks since April 2006. IIRC http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=6412 or http://rpm5.org/cvs/chngview?cn=6414. On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jesse Keating wrote: > directory -> symlink upon upgrade, and all the sort of similar fun. I'm not sure, but I thought, this theme have been aten at rpm5.org. My personal conclusion is, that as of the moment, many expected features are already part of rpm5.org for a longer time. Oh, I forgot, some Red Hat people don't like some rpm5.org team members</sarcasm>. But this are just my 2 cents regarding this topic as rpm5.org member and Fedora user... ;-) Greetings, Robert -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
