I think there should be a differance. Naming cinelerra-cv is appropriate.
I'd like to use cinelerra4 but can't get it to build on my gentoo box. If
somebody want's to maintain upstream heroines on gentoo it should be
available as cinelerra.
D

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Raffaella Traniello <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ciao!
>
>        Hanno Böck wrote:
>        The gentoo package of cinelerra community version was named
>        cinelerra-cvs in the past. As it's no longer cvs and "original
>        cinelerra" (hv version) has been removed long time ago, we've
>        now renamed the package to plain cinelerra.
>        We had a discussion about that (and cinelerra-cv was suggested),
>        but for me, two reasons spoke for cinelerra:
>        a) other distros use this name as well
>        b) cinelerra community version is the only cinelerraversion
>        maintained today.
>        I want people to get something when they type in emerge
>        cinelerra
>
>        mskala wrote:
>        Given that there is no other cinelerra package available for
>        Gentoo, I think it's perfectly reasonable (fair and right) to
>        use the name "cinelerra" for the only cinelerra package that
>        exists. However, if the system supports it (and I imagine it
>        does) it'd probably be best for this to be done through some
>        kind of aliasing mechanism - just like you can probably install
>        something called "kernel" and get "kernel-2.6.19.123.foo", maybe
>        there could be a package called
>        "cinelerra" that currently gives you "cinelerra-cv" but could be
>        easily switched to some other cinelerra at such time as there is
>        one.
>
> The situation of Cinelerra for Ubuntu makes me think at this issue
> again.
> Since long time Ubuntu has packages for both CinelerraCV and
> CinelerraHV. And now we can enjoy even an official HV Ubuntu package.
>
> Personally I'm really in favour for differentiating the versions on
> every distro using different names:
> 'cinelerra'
> 'cinelerra-cv'
>
> For distros with no 'cinelerra' package, I like mskala's suggestion of
> automatic switching to 'cinelerra-cv'.
>
> What are the cons of this proposal?
>
> Ciao
> Raffaella
>
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