On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:19:15PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >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. > > If limiting visibility of the epochs is the argument, then why is it ok > for end user tools such as pirut (not to mention yum itself and all > related tools) to show them? I agree. If limiting epoch visibility is the argument, we should be showing them in the low-level tools (rpm, yum) but not the high-level tools (pirut, pup). Not that I agree that we should be limiting their visibility at all. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
