ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Sam Varshavchik]

Les Mikesell writes:

> M. Fioretti wrote:
>> Just saw this on LWN (haven't even finished reading it), sorry if it
>> has already been posted:
>> 
>> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/223038/
>> 
> 
> He's kind of slow on the draw if he just noticed that fedora is a 
> bleeding edge distribution and not particularly stable.  New development 
> has to be tested somewhere.

Actually, had you actually read the article, it's exactly the opposite: his 
main complaint is, basically, that over the years, rpm slowly turned into 
crap:

"Red Hat/Fedora throw away what was at one time a near-unassailable lead in 
technical prowess..."

Five-seven years ago, rpm was, hands down, the technically superior package 
management system.  But it failed to keep up with the times.  Rather than 
fixing fundamental defects in rpm, instead they put a big layer of makeup on 
it: yum, and its plugins.  But it's a still a big piece of turd underneath, 
and it's getting to the point where no amount of makeup will help.

Now, I don't know what was his actual major malfunction with rpm.  I've been 
updating FC 6 constantly, and I have not experienced any problems.  At least 
not the usual ones.  He probably is also pulling it some software from other 
external yum repos, and they weren't either built properly by the external 
maintainer, or there was a temporary disconnect due to not everything being 
up to date at the same time -- as it often happens with external repos 
having packages with dependencies on other packages in core or extras -- but 
the usual solution is to wait a day or two for everything to settle down.

But I agree with his main point.  I no longer use rpm to keep the tabs of 
all the additional stuff I install on my machines.


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