Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:07 UTC
"rPath's Conary is a second-generation package manager. Considering that Erik Troan, rPath's CTO and co-founder, was one of the original authors of the RPM package format, some might be tempted to view Conary as an effort to do things right the second time around - nor is that view far from wrong. In its design, Conary is a streamlined version of dpkg or RPM with Yum in which all the utilities of those package managers are combined in a single command and combined with version control to meet the demands of a modern distribution."
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2006-06-21
Sounds terrible. When I read "innovative second generation package manager" I expected more than a yum+dpkg wrapper. There's nothing wrong with yum or apt-get in the form they've reached. They're stable and mature. If they really want to innovate they should think of something, you know, new.