"core" still present

Robyn Bergeron robyn.bergeron at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 14:55:58 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:34:16AM +0200, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>>  as someone will probobly notice I forgot to add "in upcoming releases
>> in the end of my last mail.
>>
>> On 10/21/2010 11:32 AM, Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>> >  Hi all,
>> > I've been thinking about the "core" part in Fedora that was removed some
>> > time ago (some 7-8 releases ago) but still hangs around here and there.
>> > One place in particular is in package names. Fedora 14 for example have
>> > "fc14" suffix, why not change this to "f14"?
>
> There are technical reasons for this that concern the NEVR comparison
> algorithm for packages.  For that reason "fc" here was decided to mean
> "Fedora collection." :-)
>
> We need a "General random FAQ" for these kinds of things, don't we?

"We" as in Marketing, or "we" as in the Fedora Project?
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