Renaming of fuse-encfs and fuse-sshfs to encfs and sshfs respectively.
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Oct 23 19:59:11 UTC 2006
Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello all!
> I've talked with Szakacsits Szabolcs (author and maintainer of
> ntfs-3g, fuse filesystem for reading NTFS partitions) about these two
> packages names, and he strongly argues that it would be more
> convenient to name them simply as they are called in upstream. It's
> obvious, that people will simply type
>
> # yum install encfs
>
> then they want to install encfs, not
>
> # yum install fuse-encfs
>
> So we (with current naming scheme) just create another difficulty to
> Average Joe then he will try to install FC.
>
> That's why I (personally as current package maintainer) vote for
> renaming of these two packages.
Or just add to fuse-encfs something like:
Provides: encfs = %{version}
-- Rex
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