[Fedora-packaging] New package help

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 16 15:41:45 UTC 2008



On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

>>>>>> "PD" == Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> writes:
> 
> PD> It would indeed be very nice to have ROOT in fedora. I'd be happy
> PD> to review it.
> 
> It should be noted that "root" is a rather ambiguous package name; I
> hope that there's some reasonable name that can be used.

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

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

-sv




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