On Thursday, 11 September 2008 at 16:54, Seth Vidal wrote: > 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? It's bad because of duplicated work. We now have a dozen of rpm frontends all of which do mostly the same things using different code. > 2. why is this particularly surprising? Nobody said it was surprising. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
