Well it is not really a democracy. The copyright holders are usually the ones who pick the titles. I guess the distribution package maker can name the package without changing the program names.
Also take a look at gtk. Suse includes both gtk2-2.6.4-6 and gtk-1.2.10-885. So they could as easily do a pcb3-whatever and a pcb4-whatever. Steve Meier On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 22:07 +0100, Leva wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:50:06 -0600 > "Bert Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: "Stuart Brorson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > The problem lies not with the experienced user (i.e. readers of > > > geda-user), but rather with newbies who tend to be kind of clueless, > > > and will just Google on the name of the program when they want > > > specific usage help. Making their lives easier is a good thing for > > > everybody. > > > > The problem also lies with whoever makes packages for linux/bsd > > distributions. > > > > The distributions will not permit two different packages with the same name. > > > > So if both packages make it into popular linux/bsd distributions, there > > *will* be a name change of some kind. > > I think we should organise a vote for this in the comunity. > > What do you say? > > Levente > > __ > > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: ha5ogl > ICQ: 48710903 > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo!: kieg_tk16 > Home Page: http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs > Public key: http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs/cuccok/public_key > > ________________________________________ > > /"\ > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > X against HTML email & vCards > / \ http://arc.pasp.de/ > > Have Fun, & Linux! 73 for all by HA5OGL. > This message was generated by Sylpheed.
