On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a good writeup! I would have wished we had this for > other packages a long time ago. The current standard however > discourages the use of '-' in package names for *devel, *rt, > etc.
Is this guideline documented? > Don't get me wrong: I don't like the way it is, but there > is at least some consistency in not having hyphens at all > and converting the packages would require hooks to clean up. > Having a consistent mapping between catalogname and > packagenames is a Very Good Thing(tm), but I don't see > how we can achieve it with the technology we have right now. Suppose we use hyphens for new packages, and leave the existing ones without hyphens. It will make the new package names suck less^W^W be more readable, and won't cause any technical problems. Perhaps some day we'll have technology which allows us to migrate the package names, if we care enough. If you think we should create new packages without hyphens, let's make sure it's documented and findable. Maciej _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
