[OE-core] rpm: Recover RPM4 to OE-core

[Maciej Borzęcki]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Fan Xin <fan.xin at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
>> BTW. do you recall the rationale behind abandoning zypper in 1.4? I'm
>> curious about the motivation for using smart given its Python
>> dependency.
>>
>
> The reason to drop Zypper is Zypper has too much components and brings huge
> potential support issues described in [1].
>
> The maintainer of Yum is actively hostile toward RPM5. This is the reason
> why YP do not select YUM.
>
> In [2], Smart is small and compact. And dependency of smart is small (python
> and rpm).
>
> The dnf forks from Yum and dependent of hawkey, librepo, libcomps, libsolv.
> If according to the same raionale, smart is still the proper choice.
>
> The relationship is complicated among rpm4, rpm5, dnf, yum, smart and
> OE-core. And thing is changing makes it harder to figure out this issue.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Fan
>
> [1] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2012-October/010384.html
> [2]
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-January/100582.html
>
Thanks. This has been an interesting read.

-- 
Maciej Borzecki
RnDity