Future of Yum

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 13:05:34 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:52 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The next generation of yum can be found at http://www.yum4.org
>> And for those who want the future right now: http://www.yum5.org.
>>
>> If you think the content is too boring try using whois.
>>
> 
> Florian,
>  That is hilarious. Thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> I was thinking from here on out we should just do squares for version
> number increases:
> 
> yum 3 -> yum 9 -> yum 81 -> yum 6561 -> yum 43046721 -> yum
> 1853020188851841
> 
> what do you think?

Sound like a neat idea at first but it - if you did not yet register those
domains - does not solve the problem and we are going to run into filename
length problems on some file systems soon.

Florian





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