ESR: Goodbye Fedora- big picture

[Sam Varshavchik]

John P. Fisher writes:

> 1a) regarding yum, what good is a distro without an upgrade system?

Not much, but that's not the point.  yum is just a bandaid that tries to 
cover an ever-expanding, stagnating wound.

> Isn't this a result of the torrent of new apps that has arrived since 
> RH7-8 and Debian Woody days?

Yes.  That's the point.  The rpm-based infrastructure is bursting at the 
seems.

> Isn't this fundamentally the same shared library disaster that they call 
> dll-hell on Windows?

No.

>                       Boy howdy that Windows repository was a great 
> solution...

Yes, and we have a Berkeley-DB package database, that is prone to 
corruption.

But the flip side of the coin is that if you keep the package repository 
metadata in flat files, it's going to take forever for simple 
install/uninstall transactions to get done.  If you think yum is slow now, 
try to drive it off flat files…

Generally, storing package repository in some kind of a lightweight database 
is the right idea.  It's the actual implementation that we have here, that's 
the problem.


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