On 1/16/11, Olivier Thauvin <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I am favor to import it with this name (we didn't rename RPM because > it mean RedHat Package Manager...). >
At the risk of being called pedantic, RPM _now_ stands for "RPM Package Manager" in all its GNU recursive acronym goodness (GNU's Not Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator, etc.) for precisely the reason you raise, so people would not use/drop it because of the RedHat name. Where MDK or drak is part of the application name (and hence the package name), it should not be changed because that is its name and Mandriva did, in fact, create it. When Mageia writes its own applications (mageiahelp, diskmagia, mageiasound) or forks the MDK/drak application (and starts separate, non-cooperative development), then change the name. Otherwise, it might be seen as if we are trying to hide something if only the name appears to change just to obscure the Mandriva origins.. For items that are simply "branded", those names should be changed, but not necessarily in the first Mageia release unless copyrighted items are involved. -- Hoyt
