[CentOS-devel] Branding hunt

Tue Jun 3 01:08:09 UTC 2014
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

On 02/06/14 08:04 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 02:47 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>
>> On 06/02/2014 05:22 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> 3) To remove ambiguity downstream as to where and what the code
>>> represents. This includes replacing strings that brand a component to be
>>> a part of RHEL. eg: if something says 'the xxxx for Red Hat Enterprise
>>> Linux' we would replace that to say 'the xxxx for CentOS Linux'
>>>
>>> Some notes to keep in mind while you go through stuff to check for
>>> branding issues :
>>> a) we are not trying to replace (c) Red Hat, or things where it says its
>>> Red Hat influenced, like the 'gcc -v' string
>>
>> With these in mind, do we care about virt-manager, where it lists RHEL
>> as a default install option? Should we amend that to be RHEL/CentOS, or
>> leave it as-is?
>>
>> </devil's advocate>
> it depends on how much fate you have in the users. I've seen someone
> asking once in #centos what option to use for virt-install since he only
> had "rhel", "fedora" .....

You can't make things idiot proof... I would suggest that confusion was 
a good chance for providing insight to the user on the nature of RHEL 
vs. CentOS. I think it's find to not specifically name CentOS, personally.

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