Re: rpm suggestion, was: Re: next Beta

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2001-12-01, Karsten Weiss wrote:

>Is there a chance that the mess in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>could be fixed now that a new major series (8.x) gets started?
>I would like to see package subdirectories in this directory.
>
>I´ve already suggested this to Jeff Johnson some months ago but
>he didn´t like the idea because it would be too big a change
>and break compatibility. Maybe now is the right time? Or am I
>the only one who has a problem with the mess in this directory?

No mess here at all because I'm using a custom RPM tree in my
user's home directory. A new major series could provide such
a configuration in /etc/skel.