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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. I have a... by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...good solution for them. Or should I call it apt?

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    1. Re:I have a... by pembo13 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You shouldn't since apt is in no way involved.

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    2. Re:I have a... by Jesus_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am forever indebted to you for your apt remark. I am sure that a common standard will emerge, which we can all use to install Free Pacman clones and video game ports with a single klik. After all a smart package manager is a recipe for success.


      ...I shouldn't post when tired. I tend to emulate Mookie, badly.

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  2. Code cleanup... by nighty5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up.......

    Easy job, this took care of it.... :

    rm -rf /var/lib/rpm

  3. misread by lovebyte · · Score: 3, Funny

    For some reason, I had misread "...a thorny issue ever since Jeff Johnson, the original maintainer of RPM, left Red Hat." as Horny issue. So I did a google image search on Jeff Johnson, and I can confirm it was horny (in a homo-erotic way).

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  4. Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I guess they're really going to "Rev up" the RPM's?

    [dodging tomatoes]

  5. Re:I've got something to say! by doti · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you hate dependency hell, you should try Slackware: no package dependency at all!
    If you install a program and it doesn't run, check the console messages for the missing library (or just ask Google), and install it by hand.

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  6. Re:I've got something to say! by pato101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, yes, that is called inferno instead of hell.

  7. Re:I've got something to say! by pato101 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Anyone with a small amount of common sense knows that Y is better the X

    I should look for Y-movies
  8. Re:I've got something to say! by bs7rphb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I use aptitude, because it's less typing. A-P-T-I-tab as opposed to A-P-T-hyphen-G-tab. And yes, that's the only reason.

  9. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    and you've got a PHB that doesn't understand unix..

    cool!

  10. Re:fuck dependency hell by Cheeze · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like your comment was written in 1999 and you just now posted it.

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