----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Walters" <walters(a)verbum.org>
To: rel-eng(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2015 9:33:22 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] os-release: Populate VARIANT and VARIANT_ID values
On Tue, May 5, 2015, at 03:38 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> The systemd upstream project has accepted VARIANT as a cross-distribution
> feature, but with a minor change[1] from our original approach: they
> wanted a human-presentable VARIANT and a separate lower-case-only
> VARIANT_ID value. This patch implements this in Fedora to keep us aligned
> with systemd upstream[2].
It looks like this also adds the text "Edition"? Is there a rationale for
this? I'm not objecting, just wondering.
Well, this variable is meant for presentation, whereas the old version was only meant for
parsing.
"Server Edition", "Workstation Edition", etc. is what the council
settled on for how to address them. I figured that since we now had both representations
here, I'd make this more verbose. I have no particular problem with striking the
"Edition" component if people prefer that.
Otherwise :+1: from me.
Thanks.