Am 10.01.2014 16:49, schrieb Dridi Boukelmoune:
I actually remember a comparison matrix of OpenSolaris forks, some of them chose /rpm5?/ for package management, but I can't find a link.
I do understand why people would want such features built-in, but it seems a bit short-sighted. And by short-sighted I don't mean a bad idea, I mean restricted to Fedora/RHEL and very close distributions. I don't know yum's goals, but the man page yum(8) and the faq don''t seem to mention any tight coupling to rhel-like linux distribution. Again, I'm not saying this would be a bad thing. AFAICT yum is tied *by essence* to rhel, but I'm also wondering what upstream thinks about portability, because the whole kernel issue is a portability no-no
in that case the approach to have it as plugin is absolutely fine
* but this plugin should be available at the same time YUM is replaced by DNF * it should be in the default install
I only have a problem with "*could* be implemented" while try to replace something which *has* it implemented, this would be a step backwards from the users point of view insteda a improvement
not more, not less