On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 10:54, Tomasz Torcz
<tomek(a)pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 02:08:57PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:29:50PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > No, rpm doesn't use many Linux-specific calls and this is no
> > > exception. In fact it doesn't use any of the *at() family calls
> > > directly either.
> >
> > But why?! It's not like rpm is massive on Windows Server... Isn't
> > good support for Linux absolutely the most important thing?
>
> Well, RPM is a package manager on AIX. IBM/Redhat may want
> to keep AIX alive ;-)
>
>
My understanding is that is not the only place it is used. A Linux only
version would end being another fork.. I doubt it matters much as it did 10
or 20 years ago.. but it would still be a splitting of community resources
versus a growing of community resources. Not all the world can be as free
as systemd :).
Well, OK, but let's consider that Linux installations are probably
something like 99.9%. IMO it's totally appropriate to implement an
atomic path for linux, and implement a non-atomic fallback for the
systems that need that. We're not talking about anything big here, rather
a ~10 line function.
Zbyszek