<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Dan Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dcbw@redhat.com" target="_blank">dcbw@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>That's not usually something Fedora does. The package name takes the<br>
name of the upstream project, because the package *is* the delivery<br>
option for that software in Fedora. We do not care that much about<br>
upstream RPMs that random projects may distribute, because they are<br>
often not tailored to the specifics of Fedora. We as Fedora packagers<br>
are familiar with the requirements of Fedora, and if the upstream<br>
project really wants control over the Fedora package, then they should<br>
become Fedora packagers themselves.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I feel like maybe the name change is reasonable? Since he makes money somehow off his rpms? And I wouldn't want his customers or whatever to have their package clobbered by yum... (that is why I didn't push out into an update in Bodhi yet in any branch)</div>
<div><br></div><div>But like everything else he is talking about, I feel its not my problem. And I don't really care. Maybe thats evil/wrong of me? </div><div><br></div><div>Like, for example, If you want 2 packages to co-exist , then keep using /opt (freaking non-standard) and also put your vglrun script in /usr/local/bin/ so it "wins" and is first in the path and then their is no rpm conflict (except maybe the docs? Need to think about it more maybe...) but don't expect us to change our fedora packaging guidelines or our package just because you believe in having static binaries, non system headers, packages that do the same thing co-existing, etc. Rules are rules for a reason. I know we wouldn't change these fundamentals but I also don't think I should have to change anything other than the packages name at this point. I told him to tell me if their were security updates, or critical bugs and I would do likewise... Its all just weird to me his reaction. Maybe others on this list have had similar reactions from developers of open source software?</div>
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My opinion, at least.<br>
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Dan<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div></div>