On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 03:06:01PM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
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Yeah, I know. :)
There's a problem: packages don't always get rebuilt
(that's why there
are packages with "Red Hat (RHEL-3)" and "Red Hat Linux" for
instance).
Remember, the distribution is not used to rebuild itself before release.
It'd be useful even then -- perhaps even _more so_, if it were guaranteed to
represent the distribution under which the package were originally built.
(Might help debugging packaging errors.)
Nonetheless, it would be nice to standardize on either the "Red
Hat
FC-3" or "Red Hat (FC-3)" form and not have both.
Definitely.
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