"core" still present

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Thu Oct 21 16:16:28 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:53 -0400, Paul W. Frields 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?

How 'bout "cruft"?



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