Re: disttags, useful?? (was Re: python 2.3 for RH7.3)

On Monday 20 December 2004 00:50, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> Anyway, there might be other issues, but I feel these provide a
> compelling look at a possible rethink on disttags. =C2=A0

Oh, and disttags causes us to go crazy about things like: where do we=20
fit el3 or el2 in the line from rh9 -> fc3? Trying to order different=20
lines of distros in some linear sequence doesn't work.

So, I'm just advocating Smart to be able to do a "dist-change", instead=20
of upgrade and take what your current system has to any other distro. =20
This would make possible crazy things like el2 -> chaos -> el3 -> fc3=20
possible. Having such a mechanism would deprecate the entire idea of=20
having disttags, making our Release munges a lot more manageable.

take care,
=2D-=20
=2Djeff