<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Rahul Sundaram wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:49F01872.1050902@fedoraproject.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 04/23/2009 08:07 AM, Viper550 wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">We cannot use Smart. We internally decided long ago that major system components may not depend on interpreters. Unfortunately, we cannot allow this because it is partially python based. Although Smart can run on our distro (heck, installed it myself earlier, runs better than APT-RPM for sure), we can't make it the default. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Off-topic but what's wrong with interpretors? Panu from Red Hat is the upstream maintainer of APT-RPM and even Red Hat doesn't use it by default (though it is available in the repo as a alternative along with Smart). It seems strange for a desktop distribution to have a bias against a language based on whether the current implementation is interpreted or compiled. Many "system" components like bind have parts written in Perl as well. If upstream decides to rewrite more of the key system components in Python, Perl or something else, there isn't much a distribution can do. Rahul _______________________________________________ PackageKit mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org">PackageKit@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/packagekit</a> </pre> </blockquote> I don't know why either. But anyway, we also can't use Zypp since it has a dependency on hal (which he has also refused to include), and yum also uses python (but I also thought yum was slow last time I used it on a distro so there, and I don't even think it supports RPM 5). Anyway, we also already got patches for APT-RPM to support RPM 5, and as I said before, there is another major distribution that uses apt-rpm (PCLinuxOS). Can somebody steu up to the plate and assist us? Viper550 </body> </html>