adding apt and yum to the next distro?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  not sure how many others have suggested this, but is there any
reason not to add alternate package management tools like apt
and yum to the next release?

rday

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:

>  Robert P. J. Day (rpjday(a)mindspring.com) said: 
>  >   not sure how many others have suggested this, but is there any
>  > reason not to add alternate package management tools like apt
>  > and yum to the next release?
>  
>  Please check rawhide. 
sorry, i was overly terse.  i know they're in rawhide, i was wondering
whether there were any plans to eventually move it into the official
distro.

rday

[Dennis Gilmore]

<snip>

>  sorry, i was overly terse.  i know they're in rawhide, i was
> wondering
>  whether there were any plans to eventually move it into the official
>  distro.
>  
why would they be in rawhide if they didnt intend to be included in TNR 

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[Bill Nottingham]

Robert P. J. Day (rpjday(a)mindspring.com) said: 
>  > Rawhide is the current development tree, i.e. it always
> reflects
>  > current plans.
>  
>  ok, thanks.  i wasn't aware that being in rawhide constituted a 
>  *guarantee* of eventual inclusion.  mea culpa. 
It's not a guarantee, but it shows what current plans are. Plans
can of course change for various reasons.

Bill

[Ed Coleman]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 20:47, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:32:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 
>  > sorry, i was overly terse.  i know they're in rawhide, i was wondering
>  > whether there were any plans to eventually move it into the official
>  > distro.
>  
>  Rawhide is the current development tree, i.e. it always reflects
>  current plans. 
Without wanting to read too much into this, what are the current plans
in regard to up2date/RHN for Red Hat Linux?

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[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

>  On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:32:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 
>  > sorry, i was overly terse.  i know they're in rawhide, i was wondering
>  > whether there were any plans to eventually move it into the official
>  > distro.
>  
>  Rawhide is the current development tree, i.e. it always reflects
>  current plans. 
ok, thanks.  i wasn't aware that being in rawhide constituted a 
*guarantee* of eventual inclusion.  mea culpa.

rday

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:32:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 
>  sorry, i was overly terse.  i know they're in rawhide, i was
> wondering
>  whether there were any plans to eventually move it into the official
>  distro. 
Rawhide is the current development tree, i.e. it always reflects
current plans.

Havoc

[Bill Nottingham]

Robert P. J. Day (rpjday(a)mindspring.com) said: 
>    not sure how many others have suggested this, but is there any
>  reason not to add alternate package management tools like apt
>  and yum to the next release? 
Please check rawhide.

Bill