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  • From: Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp>
  • To: Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Duplicated spells
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:43:13 +0200

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:35:36AM +0200, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> :2010-04-13T09:26:Remko van der Vossen:
>
> > I would tend to disagree, why needlessly lengthen all the spell names?
> > Sticking to what upstream calls their package would be much more
> > convenient. We have sections and keywords to do grouping... If we need
> > better grouping we'd probably do better in developing keywords more.
>
> The problem is when you got to something that is called the same as the
> non-language specific module.
>
> Then you suddenly have two spells with the same name.

Well yes, there are always going to be exceptions. But generally
whenever such cases arise the project name already includes a reference
to the "context", e.g. cairo --> pycairo and rcairo, do we really want
to have python-pycairo and ruby-rcairo?

Remko.




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