Ideas for yum
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 8 16:50:11 UTC 2007
Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 9:32 PM +0530 5/8/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>
>>> And trying to find Apache packages, for instance, is a bit difficult,
>>> that way. Apache is "httpd" for some stupid reason.
>> Trademark guidelines are not "stupid".
>
> More to the point, Ant, Tomcat, Xerces, and a host of other projects are
> also from Apache. Httpd may have been first, but calling Apache httpd just
> Apache is way too ambiguous.
Maybe. This decision was made long before Apache grew into anything
beyond just a web server and we had any real alternatives to it. If you
can suggest a better name feel free to in the development list.
It is just noise here.
Rahul
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