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Re: [zypp-devel] repo alias vs. name
- From: Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:38:30 +0200
- Message-id: <200709201038.31706.dmacvicar@xxxxxxx>
On Thursday 20 September 2007 06:13:09 Di Pe wrote:
> I am showing zypper to quite a few scientists and developers these days.
> They all love it but most of them actually think at first that "name" is
> the primary key and alias is some sort of optional field. May be alias
> should be called 'id' or 'key' or something like that. Or 'alias' could be
> called 'name' and 'name' could be called 'description' or 'label' or
> 'caption' or 'info' or something like that. just my 2 cents
I agree, but it was the YUM people that did it in that way. Smart followed. We
just to try to be compatible with them to make less confusion across
distributions.
Duncan
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> I am showing zypper to quite a few scientists and developers these days.
> They all love it but most of them actually think at first that "name" is
> the primary key and alias is some sort of optional field. May be alias
> should be called 'id' or 'key' or something like that. Or 'alias' could be
> called 'name' and 'name' could be called 'description' or 'label' or
> 'caption' or 'info' or something like that. just my 2 cents
I agree, but it was the YUM people that did it in that way. Smart followed. We
just to try to be compatible with them to make less confusion across
distributions.
Duncan
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