Hylafax review issues

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Sat May 31 17:23:28 UTC 2008


Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "HdG" == Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> writes:
> 
> HdG> hylafax is quite well known so I would expect "yum install
> HdG> hylafax" to just work, but also something like rpm -q hylafax.
> 
> Well, I'd certainly agree, if this was actually the hylafax software.
> But it's not; it's the hylafax+ software.  I'll freely admit that
> nobody so far has tried to get the hylafax sotfware into Fedora, and
> perhaps that will never happen.  If we assume that it will never
> happen, then we have no conflict and I suppose we don't care.  I'm not
> sure that we can make this assumption, though.
> 

Well the question here IMHO is not so much how to name the package as it is 
which fork to package, making them parallel installable will be very hard todo 
and AFAIK we don't want conflicting packages. Now reading this imho pretty 
neutral description of the various forks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HylaFAX

I believe that hylafax+ best fits Fedora.

Regards,

Hans




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