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Formats supported

Posted Jan 5, 2008 18:57 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Formats supported by epa
Parent article: RPM 5.0 released

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However it's not clear that Linux distributors are going to adopt the new rpm 5
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The last thing we need is to become dependent, again, upon a project headed up by a
uncooperative developer.  The XFree86->Xorg move has clearly been beneficial.  Standardizing
on the Jeff Johnson fork of RPM would be unwise, and a step backwards, in my opinion.

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people vs companies

Posted Jan 9, 2008 14:47 UTC (Wed) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Just in case it might seem too beneficial, XF86 [speaking of e.g. 3.3.6, 4.3.0] was *much*
more robust per se than X.org -- which is currently in top3 insane upstreams for me.  At least
it did work, and they didn't manage to break *intel* drivers after specs were long published!

Re Jeff, I'm afraid I'd also stay away from Red Hat.  While having a lot of respect for them,
I don't consider them a vendor-neutral... er... vendor.