RFE: Use generic names in packages
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 30 23:04:18 UTC 2007
Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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?
EPEL isn't targeted for Fedora. I did refer to the discussion. Think
about this from the end user perspective rather than from the project
perspective.
Rahul
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