Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:41:37PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> the distag is a hack... used to abuse the rpm tagging structures... to
> incorporate information into the default rpm -q output that was not
> really intended to be there by default.
> VENDOR tag does exist and it should be used for this information.
> rpm -q ---qf  exists to get access to tag strings.
> rpm --querytags to get a list of tags to use

I find it *incredibly* useful for this information to be in the filename.

It may not have been intended and it may be a hack, but that doesn't mean
it's _bad_.

It's also good for the vendor tag to be correct, of course, but gah,
currently that's a cesspool rivaled only by the mess that is "Group:".



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