On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:54:30AM -0600, David Farning wrote: > As I look at this from a RH perspective--- > > 1. One of the early strengths of rhl was their early adoption of easy to > use setup and config features. Why dilute that strength? > > 2. What a general pain in the butt renaming redhat-config to something > distro neutral would be. That's my biggest concern. Since these tools have to ship in RHEL as well, I don't want to change the naming convention without a really good reason to do so. Perhaps I'd have to make 'redhat-config-' symlinks in RHEL just to maintain forward compatibility. As far as the trademarks go, Yellow Dog ships with all the redhat-config-* tools and I don't think that trademarks have ever been a problem. > As I look at this from a fedora community member-- > > 1. Do I really want to commit my time and effort to something distro > limiting? I am concerned with this. I want the project to be as inclusive as possible, so if a name change is necessary to achieve that, then I'm willing to consider it. One benefit of the current naming convention is that typing in 'redhat' and hitting <TAB><TAB> gets you a list of all the configuration tools that Red Hat has developed. I'd like for a new naming convention to have that same kind of common namespace. Just dropping the 'redhat' won't work because not all of the tools have '-config-' in the name such as redhat-logviewer and redhat-install-packages. Just replacing 'redhat' with 'fedora' doesn't really make sense if these tools are going to be used in RHEL and other distros like Yellow Dog. Just using 'rhc-*' still seems to carry a Red Hat connotation. I'd like to know what others think about this... Cheers, Brent > > 2. I personally have high hopes for the fedora/redhat split. I've been > using the redhat distro for year. Others have been complaining that > redhat is forgetting it's .edu and .org. While, I am looking forward to > a near term feature where fedora is proved stable enough to run the > desktop in the labs and the non-critical systems, while critical systems > move to RedHat. > > > Suggestion for possible renaming. > > rhc-* > > I look at the strength that rpm has brought to redhat family. Most > people forget the naming roots of redhat package manager. Yet, third > party packers use it widely. Giving redhat a wide selection of packages > to chose from when putting together a disto. > > > I am sorry to keep kicking this dog. But, it seems important to get it > out in the open and taken care of. > > Thanks > Dave Farning > > > -- > Fedora-config-list mailing list > Fedora-config-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-config-list