On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:26 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote: > 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. I think the proposed scheme is easier to explain to those who seek information how to name the packages than the unpredictability, bugs and wrinkles inherent with Epochs and/or non-numeric stuff in version comparisons. The former is also already documented. No, I don't like how it "looks" either.
