On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:42 AM, John Florian <john.flor...@dart.biz> wrote: >> From: Alec Leamas [mailto:leamas.a...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 09:39 >> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >> Subject: Re: F25 System Wide Change: Use /etc/distro.repos.d as default >> reposdir >> >> >> >> On 19/05/16 15:16, John Florian wrote: >> >> From: Jonathan Wakely [mailto:jwak...@fedoraproject.org] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 15:15 >> >> >> >> Another +1 here. There are plenty of software vendors (e.g. Google and >> >> Adobe, to name two people might have heard of) that provide the option >> of >> >> installing their software via an RPM, which installs a .repo file into >> >> /etc/yum.repos.d. That's cool, well done software vendors, we should >> >> applaud them, not break their stuff, or force them to provide one RPM >> >> for Fedora and another for RHEL+CentOS etc. >> > Yes, please don't break their goodwill. If this must be renamed, >> backwards compatibility is a must IMHO. >> >> I have yet to see the arguments why this really must be renamed. Of >> course, there are better names than /etc/yum.repos.d. But does the >> benefits of a better name really motivate the cost of change in this >> case? Really? >> >> In other words, as Mathieu Bridon pointed out, the "Benefit to Fedora" >> part of the change just isn't very convincing. > > I totally agree -- I too have yet to see why it should be renamed at all. My > point was merely that, if for some reason this does go forward (justified or > not), it would be disappointing if this were to break the efforts of vendors > that have been trying to cooperate in a reasonable manner. >
The proposal has been revised to preserve compatibility with /etc/yum.repos.d while supporting the new default directory. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
