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

[Richard Megginson]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> I think I'd suggest the name fedora-ds-base. The word 'core' could be 
> confusing to some, esp on non-Fedora platforms. It also aligns itself 
> with another large system broken into pieces, KDE (kdebase kdelibs, etc).
Hmm - does "base" connotate "standalone"?  That is, would someone who 
installed fedora-ds-base expect to be able to run a complete LDAP server 
service?  Or would they expect that, in addition to "base", they would 
have to install some additional packages in order to be operational?  
The same questions apply for "core".

Other synonyms are - "root", "kernel", "crux", and my personal favorite 
"quintessence"
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