Re: Future of Yum

seth vidal <skvidal(a)linux.duke.edu&gt; wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:52 +0200, Florian Festi wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The next generation of yum can be found at http://www.yum4.org > > And for those who want the future right now: http://www.yum5.org. > > > > If you think the content is too boring try using whois. > > > > Florian, > That is hilarious. Thanks for pointing that out. > > I was thinking from here on out we should just do squares for version > number increases: > > yum 3 -> yum 9 -> yum 81 -> yum 6561 -> yum 43046721 -> yum > 1853020188851841 Why not using the (La)TeX idea of an irrational number, adding a digit each round? sqrt(11) = 3.316624... would do. So the next one would be 3.3, then 3.31, 3.316, ... [Sadly, the "nice" numbers \pi, e, \phi are too small now...]