[Fedora-directory-devel] Proposal: name the new core package "fedora-ds-core"

[Nathan Kinder]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2007 04:12:16 pm Richard Megginson wrote:
>   
>> As we found out the hard way, the new Fedora Extras fedora-ds package
>> conflicts with existing fedora-ds 1.0.x installations.  I've tried
>> Conflicts: fedora-ds < 1.1
>> and
>> Conflicts: fedora-ds <= 1.0.4
>> neither one prevents you from installing fedora-ds 1.1 on top of your
>> fedora-ds 1.0.4 installation and removing the admin server and console.
>>
>> I propose that we change the package naming to reflect the actual
>> contents.  So, the current fedora-ds 1.1 would be called fedora-ds-core,
>> which is really what it is - the core LDAP server and command line tools
>> - the core functionality.
>>
>> Subsequent packages would follow this convention: fedora-ds-admin,
>> fedora-ds-console, etc.  We could then have a fedora-ds "meta package"
>> which had nothing in it but dependencies on fedora-ds-core,
>> fedora-ds-admin, etc. and perhaps a few scripts, so that you could 'yum
>> install fedora-ds' and it would install the same functionality as the
>> fedora-ds 1.0.4 package.
>>     
>
> This gets a +1 from me 
>
>   
I think this is a good approach as well.
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