[Fedora-music-list] Re: package naming question: muse -vs - MusE

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri May 12 13:55:24 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:05 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 11/05/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:18 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> >
> > > Do I dare suggest that this might be a place where using an epoch might
> > > be justified?
> >
> > Actually, this would be one of the rare valid cases for epoch.
> 
> Not very friendly from the user perspective though - how is Joe User
> supposed to know which epoch refers to which package? Or did I
> misunderstand the suggestion?

No, the use of epoch here is solely to have the new muse audio
application (0.8.1a) show up as "newer" than the old muse emacs plugin
(3.02.6b), when the package names change.

~spot
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