On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:53 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > 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 things that being able to rpm -Uvh http://....rpm is a > nice feature? it's not an issue of it being a nice feature - it is an issue of whether it is a good idea to maintain the code. Keep in mind - rpm has its own http/ftp client included. It's not using curl or wget. All its own code. That seems a bit much to maintain esp when the majority of people using rpm do it through a higher level language that already has a http/ftp client. the best way to make rpm reliable and consistent is to strip out all things that are unnecessary. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
