Naming convention for packages

[Rahul Sundaram]

Dominik Sandjaja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering why the packages for Fedora 9 and even for Fedora
> 10 do have ".fc9" and ".fc10" in their names. Shouldn't it be ".f9" or,
> as that may be too late already, at least ".f10"? Given that the "Core"
> in the name was dropped quite a while ago ...
> 
> Just wondering.

This is a FAQ lately. It was decided that "FC" would stand for "Fedora 
Collection" since making it a single letter breaks the update path for 
RPM packages.

Rahul