http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/27/installing-and-updating-software-blows-goats/ Blog about geeky stuff Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:38:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/27/installing-and-updating-software-blows-goats/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Anonymous Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:12:31 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/07/27/installing-and-updating-software-blows-goats/#comment-99 I'm not totally sure on the system service thing: you can't get around the transactional nature of installing software which necessitates a lock anyway, and the "can't search (etc.)" without an rpm lock could surely be fixed in other ways. The Ubuntu experience is vastly better than Fedora in many ways, I don't think it suffers half the issues you mention, plus they can upgrade the whole distribution. Package management still feels like a pain on Fedora, but I don't think it's the concept, it's just the implementation. I moved from yum to smart a while ago, and even including the terrible cache loading time, it's miles better. I'm not totally sure on the system service thing: you can't get around the transactional nature of installing software which necessitates a lock anyway, and the “can't search (etc.)” without an rpm lock could surely be fixed in other ways. The Ubuntu experience is vastly better than Fedora in many ways, I don't think it suffers half the issues you mention, plus they can upgrade the whole distribution. Package management still feels like a pain on Fedora, but I don't think it's the concept, it's just the implementation. I moved from yum to smart a while ago, and even including the terrible cache loading time, it's miles better.

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