Dag Wieers wrote:
> You may argue that that is a good thing. But Fedora is a different beast
> than RHEL. People may want stable packages, or current packages and a
> single repository (with the tools we have today) cannot provide this.
But people may want _both_ the stable package and the current package on
the same machine at the same time. Having a hint of the difference
barely visible in the package name doesn't help a bit.
> Besides, it punishes people who did not have an alternative back when
> Fedora Extras refused to do RHEL packages and only had RPMforge to fall
> back on.
>
> At least that's my point of view.
I think you are making too much out of name differences for things that
can clobber each other and not enough about ways to let the different
things co-exist - on the same machines if you want them, or to let users
choose which they want. If two same-named packages can conflict,
someone did something wrong and the issue shouldn't be about who did it
but how to avoid it.
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Les Mikesell
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