On 7/28/07, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Martin Marques <martin <at> bugs.unl.edu.ar> writes: > >> Kevin Kofler escribió: > >>> Panu Matilainen <pmatilai <at> redhat.com> writes: > >>>> - RPM is not an ftp/http client, it's a package manager. > >>> > >>> Am I the only one who [thinks] that being able to rpm -Uvh http://....rpm > >>> is a nice feature? > >> > >> Uhhh?? rpm does this since version 3.x, or before. > > > > But it appears like this feature is proposed to be axed. > > To get some perspective into this, look at the following bugs and ask > yourself, what does this have to do with package management? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149276 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189107 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206066 > > It's not the feature I want to axe, but the client code *in* rpm. There's > software designed to deal with these kind of things, let them handle the > complexities. >From a programming standpoint, this makes a lot of sense + plus it isn't the unix way, and if it adds even a single bug, it dosn't seem worth it. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
