"core" still present

Jonas Karlsson jonas.karlsson at fxdev.com
Fri Oct 22 16:55:51 UTC 2010


 On 10/21/2010 04:53 PM, 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?
>
Fedora collection.. that rings a bell somewhere in the past.. yes FAQ
might help here, but sounds more like a temporary solution, and cause
for confusion?

//Jonas




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