Is RPM Doomed?

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."

Comments

Talk about a gimmick

[Anomolous Cow Herd]

Compiling it from source is almost never different from just grabbing a binary package and installing it. If it wasn't already compiled with the appropriate GCC optimizations, chances are compiling in those optimizations now will just lead to random instability. It's just an excuse for dorks in their basement with more time than brains to feel good about their l337 lunix b0x3n.