On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 10:54, Tomasz Torcz <to...@pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:08:57PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:29:50PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no > > > exception. In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls > > > directly either. > > > > But why?! It's not like rpm is massive on Windows Server... Isn't > > good support for Linux absolutely the most important thing? > > Well, RPM is a package manager on AIX. IBM/Redhat may want > to keep AIX alive ;-) > > My understanding is that is not the only place it is used. A Linux only version would end being another fork.. I doubt it matters much as it did 10 or 20 years ago.. but it would still be a splitting of community resources versus a growing of community resources. Not all the world can be as free as systemd :). -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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