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Why? RPM based distributions are running in the majority of companies, and VMWare targets companies that can afford to pay it's licensing structure.
by kondor6c 12y ago
Why? RPM based distributions are running in the majority of companies, and VMWare targets companies that can afford to pay it's licensing structure.
- wernercd 12y agoINFIDEL! Don't you know that Ubuntu is the One True distro? All others are a sham! REPENT OR DIE! DURKA DURKA UBUNTU JIHAD!
- icebraining 12y agoThen why does it require Ubuntu?
- kondor6c 12y agoI don't know, poor documentation? the toolchain check works for me on Fedora 20. I think it was a silly reason to stop reading the article so early at the mention of "yum"
- mdekkers 12y agoI don't like RPM or Yum. In my experience with using it, it has usually done more harm than good. What other companies use is up to them, but it isn't suitable for me. Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy.
- untothebreach 12y agoSure, ad populum is a fallacy when you are arguing a point, but when you are trying to decide on a toolchain to use, why wouldn't you go with the one that most of your customers use? You might like another toolchain better (and I happen to agree with you about rpm), but that doesn't necessarily mean it is objectively better.
- mdekkers 12y agoI didn't argue about it objectively being better, I argued that it isn't suitable for _me_ - given the downvotes though, It appears that I am stupid and don't understand my own use-cases, and the general population on HN knows much better what I need.
- eropple 12y agoI downvoted you not because of your disagreement, though I think you're wrong, but because of your peculiar insistence on self-martyrdom. It doesn't improve your argument and leads only to meta-complaint threads that generally don't go anywhere.
- untothebreach 12y ago(i did not downvote you) This was my interpretation of your comment, my apologies if it is incorrect: "I don't like YUM and RPM, and others shouldn't use popularity as a reason to use something" Which I agree with. However, in this case, I think that if, in fact, RPM is popular among VMWare's customers, choosing that toolchain in order to make their new product more attractive to their existing customers is totally valid.
- kondor6c 12y agoRPM is really a great packaging system. It has a lot of features that DEB's do not, for example you can roll back yum/RPM transaction's if you like (yum history undo ${id}). Another example is to get a list of the last packages that were installed "rpm -qa --last". DEB's seem to prefer to write things to files instead, so they'll write to /var/lib/dpkg/info/* One place where I think that DEB's win, is in building a new package. It was pretty easy for me to make a DEB than an RPM, and the fact that I had a hard time finding which RPM macros did function XXYY. I think the reason why many don't like fedora/centos is the fact that packages aren't easily accessible, because Ubuntu will enable the universe repo by default whereas fedora/centos you would have to install that on your own. If I can help you, feel free to reach out to me.