Yum better than RPM?

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:29, Rudolf Kastl wrote:

> its just my personal opinion. i can for sure understand that for some
> people a temp workaround is more important but then again i know from
> experience that workarounds just take away the motiviation to do
> something about real solutions ;).

The argument would seem more compelling if you had answered that
there was a difference you could see...

>  If enough people scream things will
> move. demand is important. if everyone that "has demand" uses a
> workaround theres absolutely no reason for them to do anything.

I think you are shooting yourself in the foot here.  It's one
thing to demand a free Linux download for 1% of the market
but now you want to make that a bunch of different versions,
each with their own quirks (AMD doesn't make the only
64 bit processor).

> For a vendor its the question if their technology becomes obsolete or
> not. if they dont support arches that are becoming more and more
> popular then they loose market share and if the market share is small
> enough the technology is pretty easy to obsolete ;) i wish wed be
> there already.

I'd be happy if it just wasn't all windows already.

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  Les Mikesell
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