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. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
