On Friday 24 November 2006 15:15, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Hugo Costelha wrote:
> > It seems wuite intuitive to me. I also prefer longer names, if they are
> > easier to remember and much easier to get some sense out of them, which I
> > think is the case here.
>
> It does not take longer time to get a sense for a shorter word.
> But directory listings have a chance to be readable and submitting URLs
> has a chance not to get broken if the path names are short.
>

I am talking of my experience, and for me it takes. But maybe it is just for 
me.

> the length of
>
> /pub/opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-10.2/repositories/source-non-oss/
>
> already is really crazy and a pain for everyone who needs to spell or
> type it - a full line already, and still missing protocol prefix,
> hostname, arch suffix and filename.
>
> /pub/suse/i386/9.3/ was a good path naming and length.

Well, one thing with be to remove openSUSE, ant it would be

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repositories/oss

Looks small enough to me!

Hugo Costelha
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