On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 10:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 03:03:34PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > A matter of perspective: To me, the decision to base a system tool on a > > scripted language isn't necessarily clever. Fairly easy to maintain, but > > very demanding on resources and on package dependencies and rather > > unstable/error-prone at runtime. > > Since there were already decent and maintained Python bindings for RPM > because of anaconda, that's less of an issue. Well, try getting a current yum running on older Linux systems, ... Ralf