On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 12:33 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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. okay - but how does the above change anything. Yes, there was about 3-4 years of relatively no major rpm devel. And people engineered around the outside of it. 1. why is this bad? 2. why is this particularly surprising? -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
