On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:56, Dag Wieers wrote: > If you use different repositories and there's no coordination, there's no > proper way to compare the release tags anyway. The discussion about either > the disttag or the vendortag are useless. I agree with Dag here, at the moment if one tries to compare packages between two distinctly different distributions the comparison is meaningless. While it may not be ideal the current mechanism makes strong assumptions concerning common buildroots, a constraint difficult to assert compliance with across differing distributions. While in practice installing packages from different distributions might work there is no assurance it will and no one likely would come to the rescue should problems arise if one is engaged in this practice. That fact however does not diminish the usefulness of having the distribution name encoded in the rpm name for the benefit of human beings. It does however require for any given package in a given distribution use a consistent naming scheme so as not to alter the result of comparisons. -- John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx>