Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> The reason why it is useful to have it in the filename (together with the 
> distribution tag) is that every output that concerns packages show the 
> package name. And it allows to identify immediately where it came from and 
> what it was build for.
> 
> It may not have been the purpose of the release-tag, but it's useful to 
> many (instead of silly). It wouldn't even matter if RPM had a special 
> extra tag after the release tag specially for this because it would act 
> exactly the same anyway (and would require change to all tools to be able 
> to show it).
> 

the release-tag is considered in dependency resolution and version
comparison - I think removing all 'brands' from dep resolution and
version comparison is much more fair.

-sv