Gimme that old time interface...

[mike ledoux]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> > The "big" problem is that some idiot renamed the 'fvwm2' packages
> > to 'fvwm' in FC5 or 6 ...
> 
>   I couldn't even *find* an FVWM (any version) packagein Fedora 5 or 6
> (or maybe both; I forget).  I think it got removed from the distro,
> and then put back later.

It was definitely there in both fedora 5 and fedora 6 (as 'fvwm'),
but in 'extras' not 'core'.  Extras seems to be missing from a lot
of the mirrors that claim to have it, so it is hit-or-miss if these
packages are going to show up in a 'yum search' or not (one of my
Fedora 6 systems can see them right now, the other can't).

It looks like it was missing entirely from Fedora 4, though.

>   Concurrent versions of the same package is something none of the
> major package managers really handle well.  Embedding a version tag
> into the package name is a kludge at best.  Of course, when that's the
> only option, *un*doing that is worse still.

Indeed.  In this case, I think calling the new package fvwm2 was the
right thing to do.  Given how long that worked just fine, I can't
see any good reason why they would change the name for these more
recent packages.

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