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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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    It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
    Be yourself no matter what they say
  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. 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]

  4. 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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    factor 966971: 966971
  5. Re:I've got something to say! by pato101 · · Score: 5, Funny

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