[users] Dropping the repotag
Hugo van der Kooij
hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sat Mar 17 10:39:56 CET 2007
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> too bad Dag, I for one certainly appreciated the repotags.
> The reason I like them is because occasionally I download a few
> individual RPMs to local storage and keep them around for easy access
> when installing new machines.
>
> If the filename includes the repotag, it's very easy to tell where the
> files come from just by looking at the filename - couldn't be easier,
> what with no commands to invoke!
Well. Using tags to keep you from organising files into proper
directories is not a very good selling argument in my case.
I never understood the hype for the tags anyway.
Hugo.
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