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

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Sun Dec 23 17:10:29 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 06:47:00PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau
> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> I understand the need to have ISOs for various versions but I don't
> see why most people would have ISOs for different minor versions of
> RHEL? i-e if RHEL 6.3 is available to you, why would you want to have
> 6.2 as well? Not saying this doesn't happen but is this really common
> enough to care too much about?

Because you just downloaded an ISO for the newest release that you want to
try, and you still have the older ISO around in case the new release is not
good enough for you (or just because you forgot).

> We had some discussion(s) about differentiating various variants of
> Windows OSs (professional, home etc) but you and I both agreed that
> separate OS entries will be an overkill for that.

Nope, the agreement was about one not having different entries
per-language, not about different OS variants.

Christophe
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