On 1/19/11, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: > ... The reason I prefer CSWlibmagic-somethingspecific is > that it's more informative. The "-common" suffix suggests that this > is a base package for libmagic, which is fine, but not very > informative. I thought about -magic, because it designates one > specific file that can be later phased out by removing a package - the > same idea that is behind shared libraries. >
to me, -common strongly implies that there are multiple functional (user facing) components to a single piece of software, within a single version. If I saw "libmagic", and "libmagic-common", I would be wondering where "libmagic-somethingelse" is, that I may be missing. (-devel doesnt count) If you are looking for something more generic than -magic, there would seem to be multiple other choices. For example, -data seems to be often used elsewhere. libmagic-data seems fairly clear, yet at the same time, somewhat generic and standardized. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
