[Fedora-packaging] New package help

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Jun 16 16:19:20 UTC 2008


>>>>> "SV" == Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> writes:

SV> You'd think that, alas, this is not to be so. :(

Well, we can at least choose a reasonable name for the Fedora package;
renaming the daemons and executables is probably a bit much to ask,
unless they conflict with those from other packages.

SV> I had to deal with root for years. It likes to run a daemon named
SV> 'rootd'. There's nothing that makes a sysadmin cringe up like a
SV> process named 'rootd'

I can only imagine what happens when a user says "I need root on my
machine".

 - J<




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