On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:32 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In fact changing this inside RPM would be a small disaster. It would > require all tools that handle RPMs to be changed, it would require a > change to the SRPMs format (possibly breaking compatibility), it would not > be backported and therefor only considerable in 4 years when older dists > phase out, and most likely also need a SPEC file change that becomes > incompatible with previous RPM releases. I'm all for aggressive changes.. even in the package manager... this is a testbed distro after all. > While in fact the current implementation has no drawbacks, is used by Red > Hat since Red Hat 6.x (remember the kernels that have 6.x or 6x added) and > is generally accepted. Yes... a generally accepted hack... i completely agree. -jef