Ideas for yum
Tim
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Wed May 9 09:00:33 UTC 2007
Tim:
>>>> Apache is "httpd" for some stupid reason.
Tony Nelson:
>>> Trademark guidelines are not "stupid".
Blind subservience might well be. It's the name of the RPM file, not
the damn program.
Rahul Sundaram:
> Maybe. This decision was made long before Apache grew into anything
> beyond just a web server and we had any real alternatives to it. If you
> can suggest a better name feel free to in the development list.
>
> It is just noise here.
'twas just a comment about the problems in grepping output from yum,
that's it's not going to work for some situations, hence one more reason
why having yum doing some user-friendly searching might well be a good
idea.
Though the point still stands, we could have sendmail.org insisting the
sendmail RPM is called smtp.rpm, and so on for the rest of them. A
distro as big as the Red Hat ones (this predates Fedora, if I recall
correctly), should have told Apache that the package for our distro will
be named in a user-friendly, and practical, manner.
What would you do when two, or more, package suppliers insisted that
their package have such a generic name, and you wanted both of them to
be included in the distro?
BIND's was another one of the RPM-name-gotchas. With *named* and *bind*
packages.
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