On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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 :).
Well, OK, but let's consider that Linux installations are probably something like 99.9%. IMO it's totally appropriate to implement an atomic path for linux, and implement a non-atomic fallback for the systems that need that. We're not talking about anything big here, rather a ~10 line function. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
