On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:42, Bob Sanders wrote:
> The package management system is going to have to deal with this
> in a fairly robust fashion and from what I've seen, I'm not convinced RPM can
> do that or that I want to put up with the workarounds it will require.
We have the source code for rpm.
Isn't that THE original philosophy behind open-source? If it's not good
enough... start coding.
> Should Mandrake drop RPM? Now that's the real issue.
If RPM is found to be non-extensible and too limited to run a modern,
multi-platform distro like Mandrake, then it can be extended. I mean,
isn't that how urpmi came about? RPM needed more features so someone
added them.
And how could we drop RPM? There's no good alternative: certainly not
portage. The guys at gentoo spend forever maintaining the ebuilds, and
they're never perfect. And don't say dpkg/apt cuz I might puke. :-)
Austin
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Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com)
homepage: www.groundstate.ca
