Goodbye, Fedora

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Feb 23 19:47:50 UTC 2007


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 at 17:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> [...]
>>> * Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate -- then adding
>>>  another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum. 
>> RPM indeed drifted but I dont think it actually stagnated. Anyway 
>> http://rpm.org for more details.
>> RPM doesnt do automatic dependency resolving.
> 
> Actually, that sentence is not exactly true. Given a rpmdb with all available
> packages, rpm can suggest packages to satisfy missing dependencies.
> 

Pointing out libraries or packages is different from automatically 
downloading and actually resolving them.

Rahul




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