Currently the upstream packages in Fedora provide the following virtual
packages:

 qpid-cpp-client       -> qpid(client)
 qpid-cpp-client-devel -> qpid(client-devel)
 qpid-cpp-client-rdma  -> qpid(client-rdma)
 qpid-cpp-server       -> qpid(server)
 qpid-cpp-server-ssl   -> qpid(server-ssl)
 qpid-cpp-server-ha    -> qpid(server-ha)
 qpid-cpp-server-rdma  -> qpid(server-rdma)
 qpid-cpp-server-xml   -> qpid(server-xml)
 qpid-cpp-server-store -> qpid(server-store)

Justin pointed out that this doesn't provide enough detail and may cause
problems in future if and when a new client API, for example, is
provided.

So, I'm looking for some ideas on better virtual package names to be
provided. For example, the qpid-cpp-client API is qpid::messaging, so
this virtual package could be better named:

 qpid(messaging)

In the same way the qpid-cpp-server virtual package would be:

 qpid(broker)

or:

 qpid(qpidd)

The other packages should have names that fall in line with those base
names; i.e., messaging-devel or broker-ha.

Ideas or thoughts?

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