On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Fan Xin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maciej, > >> BTW. do you recall the rationale behind abandoning zypper in 1.4? I'm >> curious about the motivation for using smart given its Python >> dependency. >> > > The reason to drop Zypper is Zypper has too much components and brings huge > potential support issues described in [1]. > > The maintainer of Yum is actively hostile toward RPM5. This is the reason > why YP do not select YUM. > > In [2], Smart is small and compact. And dependency of smart is small (python > and rpm). > > The dnf forks from Yum and dependent of hawkey, librepo, libcomps, libsolv. > If according to the same raionale, smart is still the proper choice. > > The relationship is complicated among rpm4, rpm5, dnf, yum, smart and > OE-core. And thing is changing makes it harder to figure out this issue. > > Best Regards, > > Fan > > [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-October/010384.html > [2] > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-January/100582.html > Thanks. This has been an interesting read.
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