xorg package names aren't starting at 7.0

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 18:27:46 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:

> What reasoning lies behind the choice of version numbering for the new 
> X.Org X11R7.0 packages in rawhide.
>
> FC4 updates-released used: xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2
> FC5 test1 development uses: xorg-x11-apps-1.0.0-1
>
> Wont this would confuse many who will be getting R7.0 (now released) ?

What was earlier big chunks of monolithic packages have now been split 
up into several hundreds of modular packages. The entire list is 
available from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Modularization. 
Information about this is also included within the release notes.  
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Xorg





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