* Jeff Teunissen [Thu, 07 Oct 2004 03:52:37 -0400]: > What DOES bug me is mindlessly adding > "gnustep-" to the names of all packages that use it, because most of the > developers of those packages have dick to do with some mythical GNUstep > desktop, which itself does not exist.
but note that adding "gnustep-" or "gstep-" as prefix to "these" packages is/was (from what I've seen so far): (a) the preferred solution by a high majority of DD, as to what benefits most to archive namespace clutter. *and* (b) what can be regarded as most useful for our users (I, at lest, think it is, and some other people will as well, I hope). > In addition to Debian and QuakeForge, I'm involved in a project to create a > user environment that happens to use the GNUstep libraries. That project is > called Backbone, and most of what we have done so far is included in Debian > (the packages preferences.app, terminal.app, and textedit.app). > We're not GNUstep. One of us is also a member of the GNUstep project, but > that's not particularly relevant. but there must be a close relationship to GNUstep when you have: preferences - GNUstep Preferences application terminal - Terminal Emulator for GNUstep textedit.app - Basic text editor for GNUstep > Why should packages that are part of the Backbone "desktop" (I use quotes > because putting a desktop on the root menu makes no sense from our > perspective), or packages that are simply useful (or not) programs that use > the GNUstep libraries, be advertised as being "GNUstep programs"? That's > silly. see above. I'd rather see: gstep-preferences - GNUstep Preferences application from the Backbone project gstep-terminal - Terminal Emulator for GNUstep from the Backbone project gstep-textedit - Basic text editor for GNUstep from the Backbone project what I fail to see is the reluctance to put gstep- in the name *of* *the* *Debian* *package* when (a) "GNUstep" is already there in the short description *and* (b) is what most other members of the project has been asking for. [btw, the mail I'm replying to is the *first* (that I can find) containing the "Backbone" word. if this had been mentioned earlier, I'm sure it would had made people happier packages with names like backbone-$whatever or $whatever-backbone that the current $foo.app.] enlightenment appreciated, -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA6AE621 When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.