On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:27:57 -0500, John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 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