On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:34:16AM +0200, Jonas Karlsson wrote: >> as someone will probobly notice I forgot to add "in upcoming releases >> in the end of my last mail. >> >> On 10/21/2010 11:32 AM, Jonas Karlsson wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > I've been thinking about the "core" part in Fedora that was removed some >> > time ago (some 7-8 releases ago) but still hangs around here and there. >> > One place in particular is in package names. Fedora 14 for example have >> > "fc14" suffix, why not change this to "f14"? > > There are technical reasons for this that concern the NEVR comparison > algorithm for packages. For that reason "fc" here was decided to mean > "Fedora collection." :-) > > We need a "General random FAQ" for these kinds of things, don't we? "We" as in Marketing, or "we" as in the Fedora Project? > > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
