[Fedora-packaging] PackageNamingGuidelines comments
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Feb 24 19:39:52 UTC 2005
> > However, the existence of this special case above doesn't prove that epoch
> > is bad or the wrong way to handle things. It's important to keep the users
> > in mind - their package searching and updating lives would be made a lot
> > easier if the Version: is as close to upstream whenever possible.
>
> But epochs make it even more confusing for "the users", since they're a)
> arbitrary and b) mostly invisible.
to be fair- yum lists epochs if they exist and are non-zero.
So a user listing his/her local packages using yum will see them.
they may not know what they mean - but they'll see them.
epoch:ver-rel
-sv
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