[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/4] rhel: No need for full version in name

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>>
>>> The proper full name 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux X' is pretty long enough
>>> already, there is really no need to make it longer by specifying full
>>> versions (e.g 6.3 instead of just 6) in it.
>>>
>>> The full version string is available separately for interested apps.
>>
>> IMHO, if can be more descriptive, better.
>
> That also means consuming more space and UIs can't always fit it in.
> I'm proposing this change cause "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3" doesn't
> fit in Boxes's collection view when we are showing a status line
> ("installing" e.g): http://static.fi/~zeenix/tmp/boxes+rhel.png
>
> This is supposed to be name, not a description. We can have a separate
> property for that if we really need.

RHEL works similarly than Windows? I mean, If you buy a RHEL 6 are you
able to get all updates without problems? It's almost a rhetoric
question, but it made me thing about the Windows and we don't
differentiate between XP, XP SP1, XP SP2, etc.

So, ACK!

>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> FSF member#5124



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Fabiano Fidêncio