Sebastian Henschel writes: > my sponsor and i agree on "gtk2-engines-magicchicken", despite its > length. what do the others think about it?
The suggestion in the developer's reference is just a suggestion. Go for it. Considering the package-name-displaying limitations of dpkg -l (14 chars, by default) and dselect's main list (12, unless you make every field expanded), this 20 figure does seem kind of silly. It's not like anyone is going to see "gtk2-engines-magicch" and become confused; they're going to have to actually select the package and read the whole name. Does anyone know what the rationale was? Obviously, we don't want to have things like... (/me pulls out quotesfile) <asuffield> kernel-patch-2.2.19-donald-becker-ethernet-drivers-and-i-can-add-any-old-crap-here-because-it-is-way-off-the-end-of-your-screen-by-now But, a little common sense should probably keep that in check. :) However, if there *is* a good reason, I'd be interested in knowing it. -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
