Re: The future of patch-o-matic-ng

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>]

Patrick Schaaf schrieb:
>>So if you really don't want to package patches from other sources
>>anymore, please be honest and call the new package pom-coreteam
>>or something like that.
> 
> What has honesty to do with naming things?

Sorry, english is my second language. Maybe "broken expectation"
would be a better description.

> As far as I can see, the core team is honestly telling us what
> they are going to do, and why. Happy naming games don't enter
> into this feeling of mine.

Yes. I always treated pom-ng as patch collection which is usable
offline. With the proposed change, it becomes a mix of patch
collection and patch list. Packaging a patch list doesn't make
sense, but packaging a link to a package list makes sense. If
I already have to download patches on the machine where I want
to apply them (no offline capability anymore), I can as well
get the patch list from a link on the netfilter.org site.
And if the linux machine has no network, I can simply download
the packages via the link on the netfilter.org site on another
machine.

Changing the name to pom-coreteam would give others the chance
to provide a package with the same features and same name as
the current pom-ng.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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