On Fri, April 18, 2008 3:45 pm, Mike Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing > From: Mike Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 04/18/2008 04:41 PM > >> >> Wasn't it the purpose of naming packages "foo-compat-version" so you >> could have mulitple versions installed? It seems very silly to have the >> version hardcoded with the package name. Just my lame opinion... >> >> Mike >> > > Sorry for the spam... I mean "compat-foo-version". That still has the version hard-coded into the name e.g. it would have been compat-unison-213 as the name, judging by the name compat-gcc-34 existing. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
