On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:06:01PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > [Warning: Flammable vapors. Please do not ignite. Accidental ignition may > cause reenactment of prior flamewars.] Yeah, I know. :) > There's a problem: packages don't always get rebuilt (that's why there > are packages with "Red Hat (RHEL-3)" and "Red Hat Linux" for instance). > Remember, the distribution is not used to rebuild itself before release. It'd be useful even then -- perhaps even _more so_, if it were guaranteed to represent the distribution under which the package were originally built. (Might help debugging packaging errors.) > Nonetheless, it would be nice to standardize on either the "Red Hat > FC-3" or "Red Hat (FC-3)" form and not have both. Definitely. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>