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[Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp>]

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.