On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 14:54 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 14 August 2006 14:41, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > The entire infrastructure is based around the name of the SOURCE package > > which remains the same with kmdls just like with kmods, normal > > subpackage splits etc. > > Hrm, ok, so less impact on infrastructure. Its still a package that changes > its name potentially with every rebuild which is still no good in my book. > ESPECIALLY as a hack to work around other issues. It's not much worse than openssl :D Seriously, yes the changing package names are a a bit of a pain, silly things like scripts to prune out old packages from a repo suddenly need to be aware of version-in-name thing as well etc. Both schemes have their good points and weak points and both have been shown to work most of the time in real world, that's why I suggested flipping a coin over it earlier in this thread... - Panu - -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
