Name is but sound and smoke

Doug Stewart dstewart at atl.lmco.com
Tue Nov 11 14:58:20 UTC 2003


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Michael Schwendt wrote:

| Extras should at most depend on Core, but not on Alternatives.

Okay, then, we need new nomenclature.  Say I want the newest Galeon,
which (hypothetically) doesn't support the FC-shipped Mozilla but needs
FC-moz++ (as was the case for RedHat 9).  On my RH9 boxes, I used Dag's
galeon+mozilla packages.

Now, how would you suggest handling that situation?  What names would
apply to the repositories where said packages reside?
|
| As soon as you update software which is in Core or Extras, you don't play
| well with the current scheme, and all your software would be "Testing
| Alternatives".
|

Hmmm.  Not quite right, IMHO.  Maybe "Unsupported" or something like
that?  Again, taking the Dag moz+gal situation, I wouldn't label them as
"testing".  If Galeon fits in to the "extras" category, but I wanted the
updated build and needed to upgrade Mozilla (a Core package), how would
you propose working out such a situation?  Or are any users of such
packages strictly off the RedHat Ranch?

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
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