On 11/18/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: > No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 00:20, Philip Brown <[email protected]> > escreveu: > >> People will usually expect to find the package by simple name. Do we >> provide a ghost "libxyz" package that depends on the longer named one? Or >> expect that our users will educate themselves (usually a losing >> proposition) > > They will probably do something like "pkgutil -a libxyz" and find out > the package names.
I guess I wasnt strong enough with my indirect comment about "losing proposition" :-) I am going to suggest a related fact, and then a choice to make. If you disagree that the 'fact' is not true, I will change it. But if we both agree it is true, then please treat it as 'fact' :) Fact: there will be users that run the command "pkgxxx install libxyz", and if it fails, will then presume "oh. opencsw does not have libxyz". Or similarly, attempt to visit "www.opencsw.org/packages/libxyz", etc. (Going to the full list of packages, and searching, is something I personally avoid too) I think we can both agree there exist this sort of people. the only difference between us would be how many there are, and how important they are. Choice: * we can be elitist about this, and take the attitude of, "Well, they need to learn how to use opencsw better" * or, we can have policies that are more accommodating to 'newbie' users. I tend to prefer policies that favour "I've never read a manpage, and dont want to," users. Comments? (We might also take the time to query our user list?) > What do you intend to do with your comments in on the wiki page? I > guess we want to arrive at a clean version of the document that can > eventually become our recommendation. At some point I will try to clean up points from me that have been resolved or fully answered. But may as well leave the mess for now, since if we dont come to a mutually agreed recommendation, we'll need to keep it for voting writeup. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
