On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 12:57 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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.

Yes, no problem with that since it will install if I enter "pkg install
gimp". That was all I was interested in.

Erik

> 
> Nico


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