On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:52 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote: > Inter-repo wars are going to exist whether or not Fedora chooses to use > epoch - they have no bearing on this decision. Non-zero epochs are very inconvenient for 3rd party packagers in general, and especially those who need versioned dependencies and try to achieve cross-distro specfiles. It's not only "inter-repo"; think "upstream", non-FOSS vendors etc. Yeah, those aren't necessarily the primary target group for FC/FE, but we have a simple, documented workaround that does not make our life harder, and certainly does make someone's easier, so why not apply it? Epochs may also cause nasty surprises even inside a single repository. They just aren't prominent enough.
