* 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 -- [email protected] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
