A silly question about our "FC" tag

[Henrique Junior]

2009/11/16 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>

> 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.
> >
> > Why are our packages still using the tag "f*c*X", "f*c*Y", "f*c*W" since
> > 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.
>
> 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
>
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Thank you for the answers, they were very enlightening.

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