On 08/19/2015 06:59 PM, Zach Villers wrote:
---- On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:18:04 -0400 *Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>*
wrote ----
Greetings.
We had some nice discussions about rawhide in my friday workshop at
flock. I thought I would post here to get input from folks not there,
and also allow people who were there to comment more now that it's not
after 5pm on a friday of the 3rd day of flock. ;)
<snip>
Finally there was mention of the baggage associated with the name
"rawhide". To this day I see people telling others that "rawhide will
eat your babies" or "rawhide is a methlab and will blow up in your face
every day".
As a relative newcomer (using Fedora since ~F20) the name rawhide does
seem to have some implied broken-ness, if that's a word. I would be in
favor of a name change/rebrand that makes it a little more approachable.
I do not see any sense in changing the name.
"rawhide" is a well established, well-known name, almost a
trademark-like, for RH/CentOS/Fedora's "unstable" package set/repository.
Admitted, the name "rawhide" has some negative connotation, because of
the permanent brokenness of its contents, but that's in the nature this
repository. Changing the name won't change anything about this.
That said, renaming "rawhide", to me, doesn't serve anything useful
purpose. It only causes confusion and - on the technical side - causes
(avoidable) churn.
Ralf
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