ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Martin Marques]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> "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.

Tell me how you can install/upgrade packages, with it's dependencies just 
using rpm (no yum, smart or apt)?

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