Re: Heads up for mono-2.2

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2008/11/25 Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue November 25 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> The magic of -n will mean confused bug reporters that waste time
>> searching for an srpm that does not exist anymore
>
> Why should people search for this srpm? If they do, why should they not use
> use "yumdownloader --source monodoc" or to use "rpm -qi monodoc" to determine
> the name of the srpm. I belive that if people need the srpm, they should be
> skilled enough to use the right tools to get a srpm. And if there are not,
> then they will at least learn how to search for an srpm the right way, after
> they reported a bug.

Why does anyone go searching for a srpm?  Everyone has their reasons.
You are assuming that the user has those tools.  What if the user is
on another system or  does not have net connectivity?  I will go back
to older versions of fedora to download srpms.  However, I usually
know the package name.

I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
problem.  Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out.  I think
that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
is more of a problem from the end user stand point.  The example that
sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.  I think that topic has already
been discussed so there is no need to go over it again.

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