Fedora Project launches Pre-Extras

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:57:47 +0100 (CET), Dag Wieers wrote:

> [...] Fedora does not need a confusing sitation 
> where you don't know where a package comes from if people paste you screen 
> output or look at your package list.
> 
> In a lot of postings people could indicate what the problem was by the 
> initial posting, I don't want to ask people to do a rpm -qa --qf 
> '%{name} %{vendor}\n' to eventually get the right information.

Then supply them with the right tools which aid them in collecting the
relevant information about their installation. 

As I pointed out before, Joe User should not be relied on to know
whether he got samba-3.0.9-1.FC3.i386.rpm from rpmseek.com or
download.redhat.com.