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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva LinuxHere comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva LinuxPosted Jan 22, 2007 6:55 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)In reply to: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux by Richard_J_Neill Parent article: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux
Maybe urpmi is excellent now, but when I had a brush with it around 2002, most certainly was not. There were several layers to the beast, none of them documented and all of them brittle. In failure conditions, the errors were often completely unindicitive of the problem, and failures were not that infrequent.
If it works flawlessly now, great, but the thing looked like someone's half-baked high school project at the time, and it was the centerpeiece for managing a whole distribution. It was one of the primary reasons I walked away from Mandrake after that contract and never looked back.
Other high points were the "high reliability server kernel" which would crash on boot if more than 4 gigs of ram were present, and the lack of posix shell utilities on default install.
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