What ticked me off about FC6

Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:36 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: What ticked me off about FC6 by thebluesgnr
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

What would those complete solutions be? Apt-rpm was unmaintained at that time, written in complex amount of code and did not support multi lib. Now the situation there is much better and Apt-rpm has been revived to even support yum repository metadata format. Smart didnt exist or wasnt as well known when Fedora moved into using yum.

Yum was more of a natural replacement for up2date since it is in python (recent version of metadata parser in C) which Red Hat engineers are already very familiar with and and uses the same rpm bindings and has plugin capabilities to extend it further which is useful for prototyping things or RHN support.