s/redhat/system in package names

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Mon May 10 20:54:56 UTC 2010


On 05/11/2010 02:20 AM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> If they aren't specific to only Fedora like fedora-release and 
> fedora-release-notes are, why put "fedora" in the package names at all?
>   

Besides switching from Red Hat to Fedora is fairly pointless since both
names have trademark requirements.  Calling it by a generic name
encourages broader adoption as well c.f  system-config-printer which is
the default for all major distributions now.

Rahul



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