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« on: 2011.09.07, 00:01:45 »
dmik,
As far as I understand your aim it is to implement the RPM installer in order to ease installation and updates of both *nix ports and native os2-software. To better suit *nix-ports you also want to implement FHS as the directory tree standard in eCS. Morover the eCS command line will be replaced by "e.g. sh.exe instead of cmd.exe", while the eCS command line will be left for compabilitity reasons.
Many users of eCS have used OS2-eCS for a long time and have developed habits in their use and ways to manage problems. I guess that quite a few rely on eCS for their business investments. In total many eCS users also have a grounded knowledge of their OS. Morover eCS is not just any OS, it is an OS into which people also have invested a great deal of feelings, we all know that and the reasons why.
I don't distrust your good will and effort to provide eCS with more software, but I wish you would understand peoples feeling about your idea. You are trying to argue in an over-rational way while not being able (or willing) to understand the resistance you meet. You are forcing to people a *nix layout and way of thinking and handling software. Morover you take the ordinary eCS users grounded knowledge from them as things become lesser transparent (RPM knows but not you) and lesser flexible (can't organise software the way you want), in that way hampering their work habits and ways to deal with problems. For many eCS users this is provoking - it is a little bit like saying to someone: "from now on you should speak spanish (or whatever language), you can't use your language anymore".
I think it would be good if you stopped arguing for a moment and tried to listen. RPM might turn out to be good, but eventually implemented in another way - a way that is acceptable to users and can preserve OS2-eCS values - both practical and emotional.You may say that the use of RPM is voluntary, and of course it is, we can choose not to use it. But on the other hand you can choose too, you can choose to listen to what people are communicating.