Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 01/ 7/10 03:55 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> >> Also, I'm not sure that we really want to have brands used that way in
> >> the package namespace.  If a component gets added to or removed from
> >> the GNU project list, do we change its name?
> > 
> > I tend to agree with this since projects *have* moved to and from the
> > GNU umbrella in the past.  I really feel that namespace should be based
> > on purpose and not on project umbrella, which can and will change.
> 
> But these are commands already using the GNU name in the filesystem
> namespace, so they'd already need to be repackaged to deliver somewhere
> other than /usr/gnu/bin.

Except that things only go in /usr/gnu if they conflict with things already
in /usr, which is only going to happen if they're reimplementing UNIX
features, and thus are, I think, almost completely unlikely to stop being
part of the GNU project, while something less integral, like aspell, might
be moved out because something better superseded it.

Danek
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