> > However, the existence of this special case above doesn't prove that epoch > > is bad or the wrong way to handle things. It's important to keep the users > > in mind - their package searching and updating lives would be made a lot > > easier if the Version: is as close to upstream whenever possible. > > But epochs make it even more confusing for "the users", since they're a) > arbitrary and b) mostly invisible. to be fair- yum lists epochs if they exist and are non-zero. So a user listing his/her local packages using yum will see them. they may not know what they mean - but they'll see them. epoch:ver-rel -sv
