On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:18 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Where a package came from is just one example of things that yum knows > that rpm doesn't. Whether there's any real use-case for that particular > piece of information is entirely different question. The point is that yum > is in position to do various things that rpm cannot possibly do because > they operate on different levels and with different amount of information > available to them. I would turn this argument around: rpm missed its opportunities "to do various things" forcing people to circumvent rpm's limitations by ruck-sacking rpm with add-ons such as yum, yast/ycl etc. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
