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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:33:37 -0400
Elisamuel Resto <ryuji AT simplysam.us> wrote:

> On 4/11/2010 10:13 PM, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:59:23 -0300
> > Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> libnet-perl == perl-libnet ??
> >>
> >> Shouldn't we have some kind of standard to avoid this?
> > 
> > We generally follow how upstream calls the project (usually via
> > their tarball name). That and developer's doing a quick `gaze
> > search` should avoid most duplicates.
> > 
> > -sandalle
> 
> I would prefer, personally, that language-specific spells would either
> be prefixed with their language or at the very least, on the section
> for the language. For example, we have xcache, but php-xcache would
> make more sense as to what it is related to. Same with xdebug and a
> the memcache pecl extension. Though in php's case, those would be
> either php- or pecl-/pear- depending on their source.
> 
> Other distros follow prefixing perl stuff with perl-, which has saved
> me trouble for searching packages for something I had forgotten.

That would probably be a good policy to follow...but do you mean for
all non-GCC languages or do you want to start prefixing c++- (or cpp),
c-, f95-, etc.? What about mono- or c#- or c-sharp-?

Perhaps only python/perl packages should have these prefixes? Ruby?

-sandalle

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