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 -- _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
