On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:27:57 -0500, John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree with Dag here, at the moment if one tries to compare packages > between two distinctly different distributions the comparison is > meaningless. Fine... so take any distro branding out of any rpm tags that actually are part of a comparative process. If its meaningless to compare the distrotags as part of the epoch,version,release process don't confuse the process by overloading those tags with extra meaningless meaning. > That fact however does not diminish the usefulness of having the > distribution name encoded in the rpm name for the benefit of human > beings. That's fine.... if its generally recognized as important... lets stop using it as a hack and change rpm build behavior to include a new tag in the filename meant explicitly to give human readable origin information that is not used in release number comparisons. -jef