Core Packages in Violation of the Fedora Naming Guidelines

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Jul 12 12:29:34 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 07:20 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> This is a reason why you _have_ convenience things -- it's hardly an
> excuse to force them down people's throats.  That's like saying "because
> rm is easy to get wrong, we're going to require you to confirm all
> deletes".  Sure, we set things up so that you get that as a convenience,
> but unalias rm or rm -f let you do what you want.
> 

Exactly. 

All my packages have a separate spec file per distro, and I don't see
myself polluting them with %dist stuff anytime soon. Now send the
packaging police after me...




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