Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Dec 17 15:36:50 UTC 2004
> The reason why it is useful to have it in the filename (together with the
> distribution tag) is that every output that concerns packages show the
> package name. And it allows to identify immediately where it came from and
> what it was build for.
>
> It may not have been the purpose of the release-tag, but it's useful to
> many (instead of silly). It wouldn't even matter if RPM had a special
> extra tag after the release tag specially for this because it would act
> exactly the same anyway (and would require change to all tools to be able
> to show it).
>
the release-tag is considered in dependency resolution and version
comparison - I think removing all 'brands' from dep resolution and
version comparison is much more fair.
-sv
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