RPM roadmapping

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 28 18:50:03 UTC 2007


Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I know I'm opening up Pandoras box here but what the heck, it's Friday 
> and I'm feeling slightly bored...
> 
> With RPM 4.4.2.1 fresh out and 4.4.x branched off to maintenance mode, 
> time to start looking forward to next major release. While the focus 
> will be largely in cleaning up and streamlining the codebase, it can't 
> realistically be all about just that

User (as opposed to administrator) installs in their home directories. I 
could run say Mozilla Firefox extracted from a tarball but having a 
similar capability in RPM itself would be nice.

RPM should also recognize and use library files I have installed through 
other means.

Rahul




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