Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Jan 2008 07:41 UTC, submitted by Sabz
General Development After seven months of comprehensive development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. This version builds portably on a wide variety of Unix platforms and includes initial support for XAR as a package format, among other features.
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RE[3]: Real deal?
by mkone on Sun 6th Jan 2008 13:10 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Real deal?"
mkone
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Redhat could always change their minds. They have shown that they are not averse to doing so in the past (see inclusion of mono).

If it turns out to be much better, whilst maintaining compatibility with older rpms, then it is not inconceivable that they could adopt it.

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