On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/24/2011 10:44 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >>>> I never quite understood why that wasn't designed in from the start. >>> >>> Because the yellowdog updater-modified developers didn't have that lofty of a goal in mind from the start? >>> > > I think it was the opposite - that they had the lofty goal of having all > repositories coordinated even though that is clearly impossible unless > you can dictate a jailed iphone-like world. There weren't really "external" repositories when yum came out. I won't speak for Seth, but in my opinion, the goal of yum was "help end RPM dep hell". And thankfully it did (combined with lots of packaging improvements in rh/fedora, etc.). -Jeff