[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).
I did some package searching.  -base appears to be much more commonly 
used than -core for this purpose, and -base seems to connote the basic 
functionality required in addition to being the base upon which other 
packages are built.

So, I propose fedora-ds-base.  Any objections?

http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
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