[fab] dealing with rpm.

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:15 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 15:38, seth vidal wrote:
> > > anyway - that is most of what I'm going on right now.
> > >
> > > what do y'all think?
> >
> > I think this is the most sane idea I've heard yet.  I would really really
> > REALLY like to see this happen and participate in any way I can.
> >
> 
> +1, I don't think you'll get anything but support from most of the
> Fedora folks.  We'll just have to make sure all the various vendors
> play nice.
> 
> As far as the rpm trademark issue, I'd be most people never even use
> rpm directly anymore.  Most people, myself included, yum, apt-get or
> up2date it.

I use rpm by itself quite a bit. Mostly for things like: rpm -qpl rpm
-qp --changelog and rpm -qa --qf "%{size} %{name}\n" | sort -rn

but that's not the point. The trademark thing is still something to
contend with.

-sv