David Boyes píše v Čt 15. 12. 2011 v 10:44 -0600: 
> > > Any particular reason for the different name? It seems like a gratuitous
> > change that really doesn't have any useful purpose.
> > 
> > One reason is historical and the second, more important, is that s390utils 
> > is
> > collection of not only s390-tools but also other s390-related tools (cmsfs,
> > src_vipa, libzfcphbaapi and few other small
> > scripts/tools) and the previous maintainers wanted all of them in one
> > package.
> 
> How annoying. Wouldn't it have been easier to have meta-packages that just 
> prereqed the appropriate other packages...? *sigh*
> It's just that this is one more thing to document that makes running in a 
> mixed environment a PITA.

on a system installed with standard installer you always have the base
s390utils/s390-tools pre-installed (even all if I see correctly). I plan
to move some stuff to own package(s) and at the end we could rename the
remaining package back to s390-tools.


Dan

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