2008/11/25 Till Maas <opensource(a)till.name>:
On Tue November 25 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The magic of -n will mean confused bug reporters that waste time
> searching for an srpm that does not exist anymore
Why should people search for this srpm? If they do, why should they not use
use "yumdownloader --source monodoc" or to use "rpm -qi monodoc" to
determine
the name of the srpm. I belive that if people need the srpm, they should be
skilled enough to use the right tools to get a srpm. And if there are not,
then they will at least learn how to search for an srpm the right way, after
they reported a bug.
Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons.
You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is
on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back
to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually
know the package name.
I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think
that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
is more of a problem from the end user stand point. The example that
sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm. I think that topic has already
been discussed so there is no need to go over it again.