Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:06:01PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> [Warning: Flammable vapors. Please do not ignite. Accidental ignition may
> cause reenactment of prior flamewars.]

Yeah, I know. :)

> There's a problem: packages don't always get rebuilt (that's why there
> are packages with "Red Hat (RHEL-3)" and "Red Hat Linux" for instance).
> Remember, the distribution is not used to rebuild itself before release.

It'd be useful even then -- perhaps even _more so_, if it were guaranteed to
represent the distribution under which the package were originally built.
(Might help debugging packaging errors.)

> Nonetheless, it would be nice to standardize on either the "Red Hat
> FC-3" or "Red Hat (FC-3)" form and not have both.

Definitely.

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