[repo-coord] disttags, useful?? (was Re: python 2.3 for RH7.3)

[Jeff Pitman]

On Monday 20 December 2004 00:50, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> Anyway, there might be other issues, but I feel these provide a
> compelling look at a possible rethink on disttags.  

Oh, and disttags causes us to go crazy about things like: where do we 
fit el3 or el2 in the line from rh9 -> fc3? Trying to order different 
lines of distros in some linear sequence doesn't work.

So, I'm just advocating Smart to be able to do a "dist-change", instead 
of upgrade and take what your current system has to any other distro.  
This would make possible crazy things like el2 -> chaos -> el3 -> fc3 
possible. Having such a mechanism would deprecate the entire idea of 
having disttags, making our Release munges a lot more manageable.

take care,
-- 
-jeff