Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Apr 10 14:55:08 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:50 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 10:19, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > The file names ARE right.
> 
> I would disagree. If I were a paying customer, I would expect all package 
> names to match. If nothing else, it makes you feel like the toolchain that is 
> in RHEL actually did something with the package in case you have to rebuild 
> it yourself at some point. It also makes you feel that somebody actually 
> spent a couple of minutes with it. 
> 
> I can also envision somebody asking an admin why they put FC6 files on their 
> installation and how that affects support. Even though there is a KB article, 
> they still have go look for it and have to prove it to other people. That is 
> really a needless exercise.

Please take this to a rhel list. please.

-sv





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