RFE: Use generic names in packages

[Rahul Sundaram]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 04:34:18AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Not for, but from.
> 
>> I did refer to the discussion. Think about this from the end user
>> perspective rather than from the project perspective.
> 
> Yes, the end user should hopefully not wonder that EPEL is from
> Fedora. If so, then he'll hopfully get up to speed, and README.Fedora
> kicking him off to do so will have been a feature and not a bug.

Seems the emphasis is incorrectly about where the repository is from 
rather than where it is going to be used in.

Rahul