On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:37:32 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> wrote:
In fact changing this inside RPM would be a small disaster. It would
require all tools that handle RPMs to be changed, it would require a
change to the SRPMs format (possibly breaking compatibility), it would not
be backported and therefor only considerable in 4 years when older dists
phase out, and most likely also need a SPEC file change that becomes
incompatible with previous RPM releases.
I'm all for aggressive changes.. even in the package manager... this
is a testbed distro after all.
While in fact the current implementation has no drawbacks, is used by
Red
Hat since Red Hat 6.x (remember the kernels that have 6.x or 6x added) and
is generally accepted.
Yes... a generally accepted hack... i completely agree.
-jef