* Nicolas Williams <[email protected]> [2010-01-06 20:58]:
> 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?

  It's not limited.  The rule we worked under was to keep it at 5
  components or fewer in our own proposed names.

  - Stephen

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