RFE: Use generic names in packages

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sat Jun 30 22:02:32 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:41PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > In the case of README files there is genuine advantages to have generic 
> > names.  You have less changes to take care off when you branch off to 
> > RHEL, EPEL or OLPC. Maybe other distributions can be encouraged to use 
> > README.distribution too.
> 
> That would be unfortunate.  README.suse != README.fedora !=
> README.ubuntu....

Exactly. If the contents are equal then by definition it would not be
suited for README.<distro>.

Isn't EPEL Fedora anymore? Why the need to banish README.Fedora?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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