Disttags are nice, save the disttags

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:40:19AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 05:44:13 Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Well, that's the case, disttags were never enforced, they made it into
> > the majority of packages (89% with a 10% increase on each release for
> > th epast 3 releases) because they are useful.
> 
> Lets not attribute to conscious thought that which can easily be attributed 
> to "this other spec did it, so shall I".  Especially when our tools for 
> creating new spec files from scratch automatically put a %{?dist} tag in 
> there.

Let's not assume packagers are dump package monkeys. Packages from
*Core* have been the ones that didn't carry disttags, Extras always
did to an extreme high percentage from day one. And there were not
really 10% worth of the whole distribution new packages in Core each
release, these were packages *consciously* moved to using disttags by
@redhat.com employees.

And the people that added %{?dist} to the templates (Ville?) aren't
that unconscious either. ;)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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