[Mageia-dev] RPM features/issues/wishlist

Fri Oct 14 18:48:30 CEST 2011

Am 14.10.2011 16:19, schrieb Per Øyvind Karlsen:
+> I've started to ramble on some of the features, issues, ideas etc. to
+> work on and consider
+> for our (Mandriva Linux) next development cycle, and in the interest
+> of sharing work and
+> coordinating efforts with others, while inviting others to contribute:
+> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Tasks/Packaging/Tools/RPM/TODO
+>
+> While it's certainly written from a vendor POV (and also rather crude
+> for the moment), I'm cross-posting
+> this one as it's of potential interest to others as well and the idea
+> is for things to be as generic as
+> possible anyhows.. :)
+>
+> So I invite others with the interest to contribute to the discussion
+> on the list and wiki, proposing
+> ideas, gather a list of issues that needs to be addressed, and do some
+> general brainstorming
+> and uhm.. "stuff". ;)
+>
+> --
+> Regards,
+> Per Øyvind
+>
+I'm curious, following whole RPM5 "discussions" over the last months/year
+on Cooker and also from my humble and polite POV  some rather disappointing
+threads/answers about RPM5. Also i somehow feel sorry for jbj as he only
+offered his help for free and what he had to take from some people :(
+
+What would be maybe interesting to many people actually interested in RPM5,
+is what does it actually bring to the table for the end users? So far ACAICT
+from what i have observed it adds supports for ACID 
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID>. On the other side
+it seems quite a bit slower in some cases, means much work for you as
+one of the implementers and a whole lot of work for maintainers just
+to keep the packages working as they did before. Yeah, there are some
+added benefits like notice/removal od some dependency loops but
+this is not something which is useful for the end user directly IMHO.
+
+So actually my main question is: What main advantages does RPM5
+bring and for what costs?
+