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Is RPM Doomed?

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-dist-upgrade dept.

Ladislav Bodnar writes "This is an opinion piece offering solutions for all the ills of the RPM Package Manager. It has been written with Slashdot in mind - it is a fairly controversial topic and I would like to hear the experiences and views of other users who have tried different package formats and different Linux distributions. The conclusions are pretty straightforward - either the big RPM-based distributions get together and develop a common standard or we will migrate to distributions offering more sophisticated and trouble-free package management. Note: the main server allows a maximum of 100 simultaneous connections. To limit the /. effect, here are two other mirrors: mirror-us and mirror-hu (the second one has larger fonts). Thanks in advance for publishing the story."

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  1. Is RPN dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Those of you who are in college now -- do you youngsters still use RPN on HP calculators?

  2. *RPM is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *RPM is dying blah blah blah

  3. Re:single point of failure by Graymalkin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well I'm sure glad Linux uses /etc to store confiruation data. Having 50 different styles of configuration files sure does make one's life easier.

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  4. Re:.deb by gik · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you, sir, for your whole personal experience with linux.

    I, and all those around me are truly appreciative that we now have a glimpse of your entire linux distro history.

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    ZERO
  5. Re:.deb by PSC · · Score: 4, Funny

    No-one who has used dselect will ever go back to RPM.

    That would be because they can't figure out how to quit the damn thing!

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