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"stuff". ;) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> -- +</I>>><i> Regards, +</I>>><i> Per Øyvind +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> I'm curious, following whole RPM5 "discussions" over the last months/year +</I>><i> on Cooker and also from my humble and polite POV  some rather disappointing +</I>><i> threads/answers about RPM5. Also i somehow feel sorry for jbj as he only +</I>><i> offered his help for free and what he had to take from some people :( +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What would be maybe interesting to many people actually interested in RPM5, +</I>><i> is what does it actually bring to the table for the end users? So far ACAICT +</I>><i> from what i have observed it adds supports for ACID +</I>><i> <<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID</A>>. On the other side +</I>><i> it seems quite a bit slower in some cases, means much work for you as +</I>><i> one of the implementers and a whole lot of work for maintainers just +</I>><i> to keep the packages working as they did before. Yeah, there are some +</I>><i> added benefits like notice/removal od some dependency loops but +</I>><i> this is not something which is useful for the end user directly IMHO. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So actually my main question is: What main advantages does RPM5 +</I>><i> bring and for what costs? +</I>Ihk, my intentions was minsinterpreted in the wrong way, with both good and +negative response.. :p + +I'm not advocating RPM5 here at all and need to stress again that I'm trying to +collect ideas, issues people feel like should be addressed, or +anything else people +would throw in a potential TODO list for rpm in general (ignoring the +whole fork politics +issue) in the world of distros (initially) based on Mandriva (they're +still more similar to +each other than to any other distros). + +I've answered various questions regarding rpm5 in the past, while +always pointing +out that I'm not really advocating it, but merely answering peoples' +questions, yet +always been labelled as the-bad-guy-who-tries-to-force-rpm5-on-mageia, so for +obvious reasons I won't go down that road again.. ;) + +There's been several responses answering this question in various +aspects on cooker +list in the past though, maybe I should collect some of them and write +up an article on +my blog or something about why the choice of it in rpm5 later or +something to give some +better overview of the situation and work put into it. (I still feel +like pointing out that +ACID didn't have that much to do with the adoption of it in Mandriva though) +But it's still off-topic for this thread (and seemingly for this list +as well;).. + +-- +Regards, +Per Øyvind +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008854.html">[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008858.html">[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8856">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8856">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8856">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8856">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |