Re: [HACKERS] rpms

>sorry to be picky thomas, but if the name has almost no mean
>(as you imply) then why not call the package "pirindonga" ?

That one would certainly be a popular name in Mxico ;-)

>anyway, is not a problem for =me=, I know now what the package
>contains (but I've installed the postgres rpm believing I was
>installing the server, so count on me as one damnified that
>ignored that there must be a package named just postgresql).
>
>one last thing, usually users don't look at the full description
>of the package before installing it, they (and I) just do
>rpm -Uvh xxxxx.rpm (usually the name is self descriptive)

Most of the final users just use the regular distributions, so the
name could only matter to the packager. And even when you upgrade
you'll just do a rpm -Uh postgr*

Just my two cents...