Re: [HACKERS] rpms

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> el día Thu, 02 Mar 2000
16:38:23 +0000, escribió:

>> Why not just name the packages postgresql-server and postgresql-client
[...]
>That is possible. imho it is solving a "problem" with no clear benefit
>in the end, so why bother? Just renaming packages doesn't, by name
>alone, clarify which packages depend on others, doesn't clarify that
>-server depends on -client, etc etc.

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

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)

sergio