Hi,

I can only speak about Debian packages but what i did is the following:
base is a virtual package that depends on libs, and scripts (bin). I
also have a oscar-x11 package for the GUI. I plan to create an "oscar"
package which will be a virtual package allowing users to install
everything at once (so only composed by dependencies with other
packages).
So yes, at least for Debian, it makes sense to have a "base" packages.
After that we did not agree on any convention (i tried to start a
discussion on the subject but nobody seemed to be interested), and for
Debian i try to be as close as possible from Debian policies/naming
schemes. 
We can also decide that it does not matter to have something consistent
between RPMs and Debian packages.

My 2 cents,

Regards,

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:30 -0800, Bernard Li wrote:
> Quick question regarding the naming convention of the OSCAR RPMs --
> right now they are oscar-base-*, but is the 'base' really necessary?
> It would be shorter and more to the point if 'base' was taken out --
> unless we plan to have other packages that are not 'base' packages.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bernard
> 
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