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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