On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:51:31AM -0800, Erik Trauschke wrote:
> > Personally, I think it would be great if (when feasible) package names
> > could correspond with actual (project and executable) names.
> 
> +1
> 
> I think it is kinda annoying if you want to install gimp and have to
> search for it first to find 20 matches and then have to figure out that
> the package is actually called SUNWgnome-img-editor

Perhaps, but the rest of the pkg name should give enough of an
indication of what that pkg is about.

You and I are aware of names like "gimp", but many won't be.  A pkg name
like image/gimp is meaningless unless you know what "gimp" is.

image/editor/gimp is much better.

Nico
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