[packagekit] APT-RPM (smart)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/23/2009 08:07 AM, Viper550 wrote:

> 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.

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