Explicit requires vs. auto library requires, and fc3/devel versioning

Hunter Matthews thm at duke.edu
Mon Mar 21 19:27:47 UTC 2005


Was there a final spec on the form disttags should take when they are
used? (FC2 vs fc2 vs fc-2....)

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 08:23, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:24 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > > IMO, disttags are the easiest way to accomplish this. (and further, IMO,
> > > extras should *always* use dist tags, but I doubt that will happen)
> 
> The reason I tried to hash through a disttag standard on the -packaging
> list was so that people who wanted to use them could have a unified
> method of doing so.
> 
> However, as long as I'm still breathing, it will never be mandatory.
> 
> (yeah, yeah, i know, never say never...)
> 
> ~spot
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