Revisiting RPM Package Management

Revisiting RPM Package Management

Posted Sep 18, 2003 18:25 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: Revisiting RPM Package Management by leandro
Parent article: Revisiting RPM Package Management

> Freedom. Yast is proprietary.

1) you are right, Freedom would be nice. Why? It is a key mistake of "the Linux industry" to not settle on a common installation / sysadmin interface / GUI framework. This repeats the fragmentation of unix (if you extrapolate a few years ahead). It's extremely annoying that you have to relearn all that stuff for every single new distribution. This will ultimately scare users back to Windows (one distributor = relative consistency; monopolies are great for that).

OSDL might be the place to settle that issue; it may seem trivial, but having to administer RH, SuSE at the same time is really annoying due to lack of consistency between them in little things.

2) Freedom is not a requirement for a working package management system, though - which is the topic of the article. SuSE does have that, as far as end users are concerned.

cheers

V.

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