RFE: Use generic names in packages

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sat Jun 30 23:10:22 UTC 2007


On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:34:18AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:41PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >>On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>>In the case of README files there is genuine advantages to have generic 
> >>>names.  You have less changes to take care off when you branch off to 
> >>>RHEL, EPEL or OLPC. Maybe other distributions can be encouraged to use 
> >>>README.distribution too.
> >>That would be unfortunate.  README.suse != README.fedora !=
> >>README.ubuntu....
> >
> >Exactly. If the contents are equal then by definition it would not be
> >suited for README.<distro>.
> >
> >Isn't EPEL Fedora anymore? Why the need to banish README.Fedora?
> 
> EPEL isn't targeted for Fedora.

Not for, but from.

> I did refer to the discussion. Think about this from the end user
> perspective rather than from the project perspective.

Yes, the end user should hopefully not wonder that EPEL is from
Fedora. If so, then he'll hopfully get up to speed, and README.Fedora
kicking him off to do so will have been a feature and not a bug.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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