Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

[Rahul Sundaram]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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.

Since you ask, this is one of the main reasons I said it is guaranteed 
to cause confusion. If anybody can calculate the amount of money Red Hat 
loses in having support people attend to such issues I would doubt they 
would consider it merely a cosmetic issue anymore.

Rahul