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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:28:11
Message-Id: 200703162123.58260.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions by "William L. Thomson Jr."
1 On Friday 16 March 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
2 > Well that's the problem. When I use say _pre instead of _dev it gives
3 > off the wrong impression to users judging package by it's name. Since
4 > it's not a pre-release. A user may go upstream looking for some sort of
5 > pre-release. Which they won't find.
6
7 isnt it though ? how is a "development" release different from a "pre"
8 release ?
9 -mike

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