Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
The current thinking seems to be to just ignore them* but this is
guaranteed to result in a lot of confusion. When end users do a
distribution upgrade via yum or Anaconda, some of the packages might
not have been updated to the Fedora 7 version due to incorrect
packaging or other issues while the rest are packages which are
deliberated not rebuild to avoid churn. Debugging a end user system
with such a mix of packages is very painful.
Dist tags considered harmful... :) RHEL 5 suffers from this same
syndrome, it has loads of packages tagged "fc6" which I could imagine
causing quite a bit of confusion as well.
Since you ask, this is one of the main reasons I said it is guaranteed
to cause confusion. If anybody can calculate the amount of money Red Hat
loses in having support people attend to such issues I would doubt they
would consider it merely a cosmetic issue anymore.
Rahul
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