Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM

-=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."

I have a...

[A beautiful mind]

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

Code cleanup...

[nighty5]

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

misread

[lovebyte]

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 [google.com] on Jeff Johnson, and I can confirm it was horny (in a homo-erotic way).

Re:I have a...

[pembo13]

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

Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM

[SeaFox]

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

[dodging tomatoes]

Re:I have a...

[Jesus_666]

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.

Re:I've got something to say!

[doti]

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.

Re:I've got something to say!

[pato101]

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

Re:I've got something to say!

[pato101]

Anyone with a small amount of common sense knows that Y is better the X

I should look for Y-movies

Re:I've got something to say!

[bs7rphb]

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.

Re:wow

[Anonymous Coward]

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

cool!

Re:fuck dependency hell

[Cheeze]

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