>>>>> "Harold" == Harold L Hunt, <Harold> writes:
Harold> 1) Due to popular demand, rename the "prog" package to "devel". The Harold> name "devel" matches the defacto standard used by other packages for Harold> link libraries and header files; most people have no idea what the Harold> "prog" package is for, but they do know what a "devel" package is for. yap Harold> 2) Split the "bin" package into at least a few pieces (but not too Harold> many pieces): Harold> 2a) "bin-dlls" will contain the .dll files only. This would allow Harold> packages like emacs or xemacs to depend only on bin-dlls instead of on Harold> the entire bin package which includes programs not used by emacs nor Harold> xemacs. great Harold> 2b) "bin-lndir" would contain the lndir utility. lndir has no Harold> dependence on X libs and can be used by any programmer for non-X Harold> projects. +1 especially useful for some packages configuring only in their source tree Harold> 2c) "bin-apps" would contain all other applications originally Harold> contained in "bin" but not contained in "bin-dlls" nor "bin-lndir". sure Harold> 3) Rename all fonts packages from "f100, cyr, fenc, fnts, fscl" to Harold> something like "fonts-100dpi", "fonts-cyrillic", "fonts-encodings", Harold> "fonts-75dpi", and "fonts-scalable". finally Harold> 4) Split the "fnts" package into a "fonts-required" and Harold> "fonts-75dpi". fonts-required should be a very small package that Harold> would allow people to minimize their download if they are using Xdmcp Harold> to reach a KDE or Gnome desktop, both of which you client-rendered Harold> fonts (few fonts required on your Cygwin/X host in that case). what ever you want, ... Harold> 6) Rename "fsrv" to "font-server". yap Harold> 7) Rename "html" to "manual-pages-html". Harold> 8) Rename "man" to "manual-pages". maybe something with doc* is more in line with other packages Harold> Harold go ahead.... Ciao Volker