[Fedora-packaging] SCL in Fedora

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Nov 1 14:54:45 UTC 2013


Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:58:02PM +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> > >Not just unique in the name-collision aspect, but unique in that:
> > >  1) it's going to be putting files in a different place than a normal rpm
> > Why should user care about installation path?
> 
> When the users are system administrators, it's part of their jobs to care.
> 
> Same with the package names, really. The end-users/developers might not care
> about either, but in that case, it also doesn't hurt to have a prefix.

I would argue that SCL packages don't need a prefix in the package name in
the same way that google-chrome doesn't (appear to) need a prefix to handle
its installation in /opt.

Bill


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