In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jeff Johnson said (at 3:25pm on...:

> Modern == what has been widely deployed for 6+ years.

Jeff, I totally agree.  The problem is, for better or worse, there are
plenty of large commercial vendors that are still providing software
that's been packaged with non-modern RPM.  It's the sysadmins that are
the ones who suffer.

I would love to see every vendor that distributes RPMs upgrade to
something that's been released in the last couple years, but based on
past experience with large vendors and what I've seen so far, that's
not going to happen any time soon, even with customers pushing the vendors
to do so (and we are).

As devzero points out, the even larger problem isn't what version the
RPM is built with, it's how the software is packaged in the first place.
There are a lot of really bad vendor RPMs that do pretty crazy stuff.

Tim
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