Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Dries Verachtert <dries ulyssis org>]

On Saturday 18 December 2004 23:13, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
> The current scheme has the following advantages:
>
>  + It does not require a change to RPM (and works for _all_ distributions)
>
>  + It does not require a change to other RPM based tools like
>    Yum/Apt/up2date/smart
>
>  + It allows the user to recognize the vendor:
>
>    + from the filename (ls)
>    + from the package-list output (rpm -qa)
>    + from the output of tools like Yum/Apt/up2date/smart
>
>  + It allows the user to recognize what distribution it was build for
>
>    + from the filename (ls)
>    + from the package-list output (rpm -qa)
>    + from the output of tools like Yum/Apt/up2date/smart
>
>  + It enables users to do file manipulations based on the filename
>
>  + It allows people to build trust for packages because the source becomes
>    visible (this works in both ways, if a package is good or bad)
>
>  + It does not intervene with version comparison in a dramatic way (as
>    the release tag only makes sense in a single vendor namespace anyway)

I've nothing to add, except that i agree with Dag :-)   It makes life easier 
if you simply can see the repotag in the filename. It isn't harmful in any 
way and it only seems to have advantages... so why won't you do it?

kind regards,
Dries Verachtert