On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 11:45 -0600, Jima wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Lubomir Kundrak wrote: > > What's the status of ':' support in windows? Is it possible to use those > > characters on NTFS? The file name if a package is not important, unless > > you let rpm satisfy dependencies, does it? What happens when you attempt > > to download a file with a colon in name in Windows -- does it replace it > > with some other character? > > Actually, I tried naming something with a : on someone's XP box yesterday > (totally unrelated to this), and it wouldn't let me. I didn't check, but > I can only imagine it was using NTFS (fairly new machine). > > > If only a dash for chosen as an epoch separator instead of a colon... > > Oh, *that'll* make it more readable. ;-) Jima, are we talking about readability? Well, then we should exchange names like orange-devel-0.3-5.cvs20051118.fc8.x86_64.rpm for "Orange Development Package" and so on. Can you see how nice would they look on a desktop? ;) -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
