<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/16 Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 11/17/2009 04:27 AM, Henrique Junior wrote: > Hello, * > > I have a question that may sound a little stupid, but that came as I > write a short article about some Fedora's curiosities. > </div>> Why are our packages still using the tag "f*c*X", "f*c*Y", "f*c*W" since <div class="im">> Fedora does not use “*Core*” in his name anymore? > > I know it's an almost irrelevant question, but the article is just about > small curiosities and I could not think in a better place to ask. </div>When Fedora 7 was about to be released, there was a long and serious discussion about how to rename it but we took the easy way out and decided to call it "Fedora Package Collection" along the lines of GCC being called "GNU Compiler Collection". Dropping the "C" would have broken the upgrade path for RPM. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div> Thank you for the answers, they were very enlightening. -- Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior <a href="http://www.lonelyspooky.com">http://www.lonelyspooky.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------------- "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?!"