On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:08:57PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:29:50PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no
> > exception. In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls
> > directly either.
>
> But why?! It's not like rpm is massive on Windows Server... Isn't
> good support for Linux absolutely the most important thing?
Well, RPM is a package manager on AIX. IBM/Redhat may want
to keep AIX alive ;-)
My understanding is that is not the only place it is used. A Linux only version would end being another fork.. I doubt it matters much as it did 10 or 20 years ago.. but it would still be a splitting of community resources versus a growing of community resources. Not all the world can be as free as systemd :).