On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:16:40 -0500 inode0 <[email protected]> wrote: ...snip...
> Since I am one of the more vocal critics in #rhel on this subject I > guess I'll say my piece here now. The reason I haven't before, > although I have discussed it at some length with stahnma in #rhel, is > that I don't believe I have any new arguments to offer. I just am > persuaded by the arguments that are on the table already. ...snip... I'm not going to answer all your comments responding to particular lines out of the irc log, as I don't think thats going to be productive. How about we list up the pros and cons and see if they are worth it? PRO: Easily end user visible marker for where a package came from. PRO: Other 3rd party repos use them, so people are used to them. CON: Causes us to diverge from Fedora CON: Can be easily spoofed / isn't a sure indicator CON: Would require a mass rebuild of our packages. CON: Would need to be carefull this didn't change the upgrade path for users using multiple 3rd party repos, or at least notify them about it. (more to add for either list?) Personally, at this point I would like to know more about the end user cases you are seeing where a dist tag would help. Perhaps you could post some irc logs of users who this would have helped with (with the nicks redacted?). Can we do something else in these cases? Would a script help? Anyhow, I am not 100% against them, I just don't currently think they are worth it. kevin
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