RPM roadmapping

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 30 19:08:53 UTC 2007


Robert Scheck wrote:
> Evening,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>>> the best way to make rpm reliable and consistent is to strip out all
>>>>> things that are unnecessary.
> 
> hm. Looking forward to pyrpm and pyyum or however it is called, is it
> necessary to keep rpm and yum at all? Neither pyrpm nor the pyyum depend on
> rpmlib somehow. Isn't it overkill to have two implementations of the same?

Pyrpm is described as "PyRPM is an experimental project to look at rpm 
package management". It is a prototyping tool. Not a implementation 
meant to be used by users currently unlike Yum (which I think is what 
you are referring to as pyyum).

Rahul





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