Re: The rpm elevator speech

[Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi acm org>]

How About
 "Rpm is a package management system providing automatic handling of
configuration files, ease of use/rebuild, separation of pristine sources
and distro patches and powerful querying capabilities" ?

 ;-)

 -F

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:06 -0400, Richard Siddall wrote:
> I've been packaging up a web application as RPMs.  While writing up the
> README file, I had difficulty coming up with a short synopsis of what
> rpm is.  (I find I tend to concentrate on the "build-once, install many"
> feature and neglect the system management aspect.)
> 
> If you had to concisely summarize what rpm is, what would you say?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Richard Siddall
> 
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