Re: RFE: Use generic names in packages

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:41PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > > In the case of README files there is genuine advantages to have generic 
> > > names.  You have less changes to take care off when you branch off to 
> > > RHEL, EPEL or OLPC. Maybe other distributions can be encouraged to use 
> > > README.distribution too.
> > That would be unfortunate.  README.suse != README.fedora !=
> > README.ubuntu....
>
> Exactly. If the contents are equal then by definition it would not be
> suited for README.<distro>.
>
> Isn't EPEL Fedora anymore? Why the need to banish README.Fedora?

EPEL isn't targeted for Fedora. I did refer to the discussion. Think 
about this from the end user perspective rather than from the project 
perspective.

Rahul