[Libosinfo] [PATCH 4/4] gnome: Add info about 3.10

[Fabiano Fidencio]

Christophe,

On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 11:31 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 06:43:58PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > You are missing my point, I'm saying that ostree based images are very
> > > different from the GNOME live CDs that are already listed in libosinfo
> > > database,
> > 
> > And that is simply not true. They are both GNOME. The fact that <=3.8
> > media were based on fedora was an implementation detail that is pretty
> > irrelevant. They are both still the same OS.
> 
> From a user point of view, this could be the way the GNOME project wants to
> market these images. From a libosinfo internal representation point of
> view, I think this 'implementation detail' is significant enough for us to
> represent them differently. Different base OS can also mean differences in
> hardware supported by the image.
> 
> The live cd and these ostree images are very different things, let's
> represent them _internally_ as different OSes (note that I haven't said
> anything about the user-visible OS names).

I didn't get why represent them as different OSes *only* because they
come from a different base OS? Could you enlighten my mind?
The final result is the same and I think this is what really matters for
the application developers and it would not cause any kind of breakage
for them, exactly the opposite from my point of view.

> 
> Christophe
> 
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Best Regards,
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Fabiano Fidêncio