Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi Adam,
On Sa 07 Jun 2014 03:09:58 CEST, Adam Borowski wrote:
Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.8.0+2 Severity: wishlist Hi! Back in the day, this kind of metapackages used to be named foo-desktop-environment. This is no more, yet I see that for some reason MATE uses this old scheme. I'd say this is both inconsistent and confusing. A package named "mate-desktop" exists, yet it's not what one would expect. On the other hand, other desktop environments' metapackages are named: gnome lxde kde-standard xfce4 xfce4-goodies As 3/4 of these use just their short name, I'd suggest using just "mate" as well. Meow!
I have been wondering about the reason of other packaging teams for dropping that old naming scheme for desktop shell meta packages, as I think it makes more sense than those short names we currently have in Debian.
If there is a consensus on such short names, I will follow that consensus and rename bin:packages of the meta src:package mate-desktop-environment.
However, if it is just a matter of trendyness, I'd offer adding "Provides: mate" resp. "Provides: mate-core", resp. "Provides: mate-extras" to the different bin:package in src:package mate-desktop-environment as a solution while keeping the current bin:package names.
Feedback? Comments? Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: [email protected], http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb
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