On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote: > 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. You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi. > The example that > sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm. yum search kdeskd returns no results. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
