Re: "core" still present

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:34:16AM +0200, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>   as someone will probobly notice I forgot to add "in upcoming
> releases
>  in the end of my last mail.
>  
>  On 10/21/2010 11:32 AM, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>  >  Hi all,
>  > I've been thinking about the "core" part in Fedora that was removed
> some
>  > time ago (some 7-8 releases ago) but still hangs around here and there.
>  > One place in particular is in package names. Fedora 14 for example have
>  > "fc14" suffix, why not change this to "f14"? 
There are technical reasons for this that concern the NEVR comparison
algorithm for packages.  For that reason "fc" here was decided to mean
"Fedora collection." :-)

We need a "General random FAQ" for these kinds of things, don't we?

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