[fab] Fw: [Bug 174307] RPM 4.4.6 is available

[Rex Dieter]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:

>> We've been selectively backporting the parts from upstream that make sense.  
>> There are some changes that have gone into the upstream RPM releases that 
>> we're really not comfortable consuming, such as soft requires (suggests, 
>> recommends, enhances) stuff like that.  I think there are many more examples 
>> of feature sets that we're really not comfortable with, I don't have a list 
>> in front of me.
> 
> That "soft requires" is one of the key differences between rpm and deb.  
> If jbj is trying to get rpm and deb closer, are we getting in the way of 
> that perhaps-worthy goal by dragging our feet?

IMO, there are a few features from upstream rpm that I would love Fedora
to have, among them including "soft requires", sane(r) handling of
dangling symlinks and unowned directories, automatic dependancy
generation for libtool archives (and potentially corolary to that,
pkg-config bits).

-- Rex