[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/4] rhel: No need for full version in name

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Dec 27 12:42:21 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 06:47:00PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau
>> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I understand the need to have ISOs for various versions but I don't
>> see why most people would have ISOs for different minor versions of
>> RHEL? i-e if RHEL 6.3 is available to you, why would you want to have
>> 6.2 as well? Not saying this doesn't happen but is this really common
>> enough to care too much about?
>
> Because you just downloaded an ISO for the newest release that you want to
> try, and you still have the older ISO around in case the new release is not
> good enough for you (or just because you forgot).

Yeah more like the corner cases, rather than usual/typical scenerio
and as (or less) likely as having two copies of the same media. Hence
the bug I mentioned.

>> We had some discussion(s) about differentiating various variants of
>> Windows OSs (professional, home etc) but you and I both agreed that
>> separate OS entries will be an overkill for that.
>
> Nope, the agreement was about one not having different entries
> per-language, not about different OS variants.

That too, we have discussions on like everything. :)

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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