Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
> The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is guaranteed 
> to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a distribution upgrade via 
> yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might not have been updated to the 
> Fedora 7 version due to incorrect packaging or other issues while the rest 
> are packages which are deliberated not rebuild to avoid churn. Debugging a 
> end user system with such a mix of packages is very painful.

Dist tags considered harmful... :) RHEL 5 suffers from this same 
syndrome, it has loads of packages tagged "fc6" which I could imagine 
causing quite a bit of confusion as well.

 	- Panu -