On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 11:16:51AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think anyone is calling for just "gimp" here -- just "gimp" at the
> tail of a heirarchy like the one you suggest.  But those tails should
> generally be named after the project, or by whatever name it's commonly
> called.  There are other ways to find what you're looking for if you don't
> know the name, including categories and the package name heirarchy, not to
> mention search.

Yes, that's fine, I'd be very happy with that.  My gimp example came
from the proposed renames list.

How many components are allowed in pkg names?

Nico
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