On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ville [ISO-8859-1] Skyttä 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? The workaround /does/ make things harder in general: packagers will have to learn it, and users will have to decipher it. Neither of those things are as trivial as they seem - the proposed scheme is obvious to us only because we already understand it. > Epochs may also cause nasty surprises even inside a single repository. "may" == FUD :-) -- Elliot
