Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

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On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 11:40 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > nope. Just means a user thinks something is from somewhere by
> > looking at the filename, not looking at the content or the
> > signature.
> 
> You could take this argument to the extreme - and remove the
> 'version-release-arch' from the filename - and just provide 'yum.rpm'
> 
> Oh wait - they moved away from that practice since SuSE-8.0?
> 

I don't want to take things to the extreme.

I'm not asking for things to be removed from the standard rpm filename.

I'm just asking that the release field not be used for branding.

if you want to brand your package use vendor or packager.

-sv



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