Benol wrote:
> Usability

Tell me about that, how is foo-1.2.3-4.pac (or similar) more usable than 
foo-1.2.3-4.pkg.tar.gz. I
install a package with pacman -S foo or with pacman -A foo<tab>, this is very 
usable.

> comfort

see above, how would that be comfortable? You usually do not type the 
extension, so typing it will
not cause you any discomfort.

> and intuitiveness.

So you think .pac or .foo would be more intuitive? I think .pkg.tar.gz is 
intuitive: When I look at
it, I know that the package is a tar.gz archive, I know which tools I can use 
to examine it. I know
how I could manipulate it if necessary and it adds a great deal of transparency 
of the problem, I
can determine the exact format of an arch package within minutes. The extension 
just says what it
is: it's a gzipped compressed tar archive containing a package. How could 
anything be more intuitive?

> None of them is technical,

none of them is real.

> I did not want to start a flame

and for the record: I am not flaming!

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