What are we going to call the new repo? (Was: Re: simplistic questions about core/extras merge)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Feb 12 13:07:09 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:48 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 12.02.2007 13:02, Max Spevack wrote:
>  > [...]
> > 2) What are we going to call the new repo, from the /etc/yum.repos.d/ 
> > perspective?  In fact, my larger question is "what will f7's 
> > fedora-release package look like?
> 
> Not a big deal, but I'd really would like to have a proper name we all 
> agree on to use. I ran into situations now and then already where just 
> using the term "Fedora" didn't make it clear that I was taking about the 
> merged Core and Extras repository.
> 
> So how about one of those:
> * Fedora Package Collection
> * Fedora Collection
> * Fedora Packages
> * Fedora Collective
Only if you rename FAB into Central Committee. ;)

> * Fedora Package Collective
> * Fedora Package Repository
> * Fedora Repository
> * <your suggestion here>
> 
> /me *currently* votes for "Fedora Package Repository" (short: 
> "fedora-repo"), as that's what it is.

Why not what at least I perceive as obvious: "Fedora"?

Ralf






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