On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 16:59 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > For what its worth, I agree. Epoch in the file name is a bad idea. > > Why do you think it's bad - because of the ':' used as separator, or > "just because" (epochs are evil and all that)? > > Currently you can store different versions and releases of a package > within a directory without them clashing - why is it ok for packages with > different epochs to clash in that situation? Well, using : as a separator seems like a bad idea, but I really don't want to encourage epoch use. Its a last resort hack to fix a broken package when there is no other way to ensure safe upgrades. If new packagers start seeing it show up in a far more visible way, people will think that they need to use it by default. ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
