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Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the breathing-life-back-in dept.

-=Moridin=- writes "The Fedora Project has announced plans to revitalize RPM, the package manager used by many Linux distros. According to the announcement, 'Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project.' For more information, see the the RPM web site and the new wiki-based RPM FAQ. The issue of RPM's upstream development has been a thorny issue ever since Jeff Johnson, the original maintainer of RPM, left Red Hat."

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  1. Re:You Have It All Wrong by mrchaotica · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If you want something user friendly to use at the command line, use yum, apt-rpm, yast, or whatever other high level tool floats your boat.

    If you're going to be using apt anyway, what's the point? Why not just give the damn thing up and start using dpkg? Is it not-invented-here syndrome at Red Hat, or pure stupidity, or what?

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  2. Re:Anti-FUD Post by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Warning: link in parent post's signature points to material which is homophobic and inflammatory.

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  3. Re:I have a... by Otter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah, I did not know that .deb is the packaging format, after all I only use debian on my desktop for more than half of a decade...

    In fairness to you, Debian hasn't had a new release since 1999.

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