RFC: Soname in rpm name

Mon Jan 24 23:19:46 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 23:48 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:34:27AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > My concern is that such a scheme _when applied as a standard procedure
> > for all library packages_ would probably lower the barrier for including
> > backwards compatibility cruft for which there will probably no
> > interested parties to clean it up nor maintain.
> 
> There's no need to, these packages can be easily marked (see my other
> replies in this thread) and removed even in cron-jobs.

My concern not about that, but about what's included in the distro, as
in DVD's, download.fedora.redhat.com etc.