RE: Using YUM to manage S/W distros other than linux

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:57 -0700, Gallie, Keith wrote:
> 
> Reaching the architecture review stage of my little project and rpm and
> yum are still on the table. I decided to review this small thread and
> came across
> 
> "if the os is managed by rpm all of the above are possible."
> 
> I may be mis-reading this but why would the OS have to be managed by rpm
> to make the 'above' (now below) possible? I have whittled and hammered
> down to red hat only OS support, for now, and rpm and yum are being used
> on the target systems but I don't understand why the OS would have to be
> managed by rpm to use rpm to transport other data.
> 

the os doesn't really need to be - it just makes finding dependencies
easier.

-sv