Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Apr 10 12:39:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:32 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yeah, they made it a FAQ already ;-)
> > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_103_10269.shtm
> >
> 
> As a paying RHEL customer, this kind of upsets me.  They can't take
> the time to ensure file-names are right on their flagship product.  I
> realize it's mostly cosmetic, but many people who run RHEL are NOT
> good at Linux and need all the help they can get.
> 
> I think dist tags should match the dist the package is used in.  End of story.

Please don't whine about RHEL on this list.  File a bug or contact Red
Hat directly if you're pissed about something that was done in RHEL.
Whining about it here will not result in magical changes being done to
fix your issue.

End of story.  ;)

josh




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