Renaming of fuse-encfs and fuse-sshfs to encfs and sshfs respectively.

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Tue Oct 24 04:52:55 UTC 2006



Rex Dieter schrieb:
> 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}

+1

CU
thl




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