A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux [LWN.net]

A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

Posted Aug 16, 2009 16:43 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux by juliank
Parent article: A possible change of direction for Foresight Linux

Multilib - Fedora has not installed both arch packages by default in a x86_64 system for quite sometime now although there is a simple setting to change if you prefer it.

DebDelta is not integrated into the distribution like DeltaRPM in SUSE and Fedora after that.

Separate patches - RPM has always used granular patches unlike Deb where usually many of the patches are put up into a single archive. This makes it harder to cherry pick some of them. I know this isn't always the case.

File Capability - Writing a script is fragile. Fedora is going to use this RPM capability by default in the next release

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/FeatureList

If you want more, Fedora is also using XZ compression by default in the next release as well. My point is simply that catching up is bound to happen on both sides.

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