RPMv4 is nice, but I'm not sure I understand what the point was. So far, the API changes are incrementally better, but with the additional burden of making you #ifdef your way around stuff. Eh.
Needless to say, I'd still give almost anything for some relevant documentation.
Debian continues to remind me of Xanadu -- good vision, sketchy implementation.
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