#1: People know pacman for having a "tarball" kind of package. What would renaming it bring, other than having to rewrite everything?
#2: One thing: last time I checked, if a gzip file doesn't end in gz, then gunzip cannot extract it. So, in case your pacman is broken, that way at least you can still extract pacman and fix your box. I know renaming the file is possible, but can you give any reasons why renaming the packages to .pac would actually be worth it? #3: There's this thing called "geek ego" where you always feel better (usually because you are better) when you use tgz as a file format :P #4: AFAIK, .pac is already a standard for proxy auto configuration scripts. Try finding an extension that's not already taken :P On 4/3/06, Johannes Held <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benol wrote: > > For me it's just natural that PACMAN package (not any other manager or > > distro, but pacman for arch) is called *.pac - I can google for them > > (althought I know that it is not necessary :P). It just looks better. But I > > can see, that I am the only one, who thinks, that 3 letter long extension is > > better than one which is longer than the filename itself (but indeed, it is > > VERY clear, that this package is a package and tar archive compressed with > > gzip at the same time). > Hm, I don't mind - cause I never type it. [tab] for president. > > > You also forget about PKGBUILD -> foo.pkgbuild. For me the advantages are > > obvious (loosing track of them, searching for a certain one, not overwriting > > by mistake). But again, I might be thinking differently than the > > "community". > Hm, the programm is "defined" via the directory. > If you download the tarball you get all you need. > And for searching - you simply search after the directory an you get all you > need. > > Therefore I do not see right sense renaming the PKGBUILDs, however I like the > idea. > > > -- > Gruß, Johannes > www.hehejo.de > > http://urly.de/6590 > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: https://sigterm.homeunix.com Registered Linux #349269 "Sorry isn't an excuse when you do something stupid on purpose." _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
