2009/11/16 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 11/17/2009 04:27 AM, Henrique Junior wrote:> Why are our packages still using the tag "f*c*X", "f*c*Y", "f*c*W" since
> Hello, *
>
> I have a question that may sound a little stupid, but that came as I
> write a short article about some Fedora's curiosities.
>
> Fedora does not use “*Core*” in his name anymore?When Fedora 7 was about to be released, there was a long and serious
>
> I know it's an almost irrelevant question, but the article is just about
> small curiosities and I could not think in a better place to ask.
discussion about how to rename it but we took the easy way out and
decided to call it "Fedora Package Collection" along the lines of GCC
being called "GNU Compiler Collection". Dropping the "C" would have
broken the upgrade path for RPM.
Rahul
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Thank you for the answers, they were very enlightening.
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