Heads up for mono-2.2

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
> 2008/11/25 Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
> > On Tue November 25 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> The magic of -n will mean confused bug reporters that waste time
> >> searching for an srpm that does not exist anymore
> >
> > Why should people search for this srpm? If they do, why should they not use
> > use "yumdownloader --source monodoc" or to use "rpm -qi monodoc" to determine
> > the name of the srpm. I belive that if people need the srpm, they should be
> > skilled enough to use the right tools to get a srpm. And if there are not,
> > then they will at least learn how to search for an srpm the right way, after
> > they reported a bug.
> 
> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm?  Everyone has their reasons.
> You are assuming that the user has those tools.  What if the user is
> on another system or  does not have net connectivity?  I will go back
> to older versions of fedora to download srpms.  However, I usually
> know the package name.
> 
> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
> problem.  Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out.  I think
> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
> is more of a problem from the end user stand point.

You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi.

> The example that
> sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.

yum search kdeskd returns no results.

Regards,
R.

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