On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the >> package name, from any repo. > You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply > rules similar to that of Fedora (e.g. SUSE does as well) and because > people trying to implement them will be facing technically difficulties > at various places. > > Anyway, what you will find is tarball-names containing non-ASCII > characters, which would require transliteration to make these tarballs' > names to fit into Fedora's package-naming rules. > Yum doesn't work with tarballs. > We've repeatedly had this case in Fedora. One case, I (vaguely) remember > was a font-package submission, which applied French accented characters > in its tarball name. > ÂIt back then had triggered a discussion similar to this, because the > package submitter Âhad refused to transliterate the package name into ASCII. > That is nationalism. Any time ego is involved people will be made to suffer. Fortunately, Stallman had the foresight to give us an easy way out: the right to repackage with a different name that fits the distro's naming conventions. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
