rpm-4.4 has disttag (was: Re: Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras)

> >>>Change is how improvements are made.  Start by changing
> things for FC4, 
> >>>and continue to use the legacy methods for older distros.
> >>>        
> >>>
> >>Go ahead. I'm not stopping you.
> >>      
> >>
> >>This discussion is not about the future, this discussion is about the past 
> >>and the present.
> >>      
> >>
> >I beg to differ, this whole thread has been about the future. How things
> >are done, in the future, for fedora extras.
> >    
> >
> This was not about the future and not about Fedora Extras. It was about 
> disttags and repotags in general.
>
> You've been wrong if you think I was arguing for a change in Fedora Extras.
>
> Disttags and repotags are necessary for 3rd party repositories and I have 
> not argued about anything else than that.
>  
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143389


------- Additional Comments From jbj(a)redhat.com  2004-12-29 00:59 -------
rpm-4.4 has Disttag: (reluctantly, I do not believe Disttag: is
useful or viable).

So it's not the rpm implementation that is preventing repository
markers in packages.