What makes us Red Hat

Re:What makes us Red Hat by kbenson on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:11AM (#14050622)

> The fact that /usr/share/doc/ has every single package installed listed in it, and they don't include the installed version number in the directory names, as RH still does, means that you can use that directory to recover or rebuild from various packaging failures.

Why wouldn't you want the version numbers? That seems like something you would want when trying to rebuild a package database. Also, what do you do if you have two versions of something installed ?

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Re:What makes us Red Hat by dredmorbius on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:04PM (#14064124)

1. Generally you rebuild to the latest available versions of yor specified release. APT sorts version deps as it does package deps, so you don't have to.

2. You can reference content under /usr/share/doc/ without having to specify a goddamned version number that a) changes arbitrarily and b) is inconsistently specified every fucking time.

Version numbers are metadata, not directory name elements.

Changelogs, also required, give you the info if you desperately neeed it.

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