RPM package manager

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with RPM package manager, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Creating RPM packages properly is miserable and building from SRPMS is hard2023-03-26
Package management feels messy and unreliable compared to dpkg2022-10-31
Installing one package requires chasing and manually resolving a chain of mismatched dependencies2019-06-27
Commenter finds RPM files hard to inspect compared with .deb, needing hex editor-like tools2016-03-18