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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

On 4/13/2010 11:37 AM, Eric Sandall wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:58 +0200
> Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> wrote:
> 
>>> libnet-perl == perl-libnet ??
>>>
>>> Shouldn't we have some kind of standard to avoid this?
>>
>>
>> Fixed, I just removed deprecated libnet-perl from test grimoire.
>> We should follow upstream, of course only lowercases.
>> Who pushes new spell into grimoire should check if "the same" spell
>> with other name hasn't been already included.
>>
>> Personally I am against renaming of all spells in perl-cpan only to
>> add perl- prefix. Of course if upstream perl module developers use
>> the same name as upstream use, we have to add perl- prefix.
> 
> I agree, we should use what upstream calls it and only come up with a
> different name if the spell name is already in use by another package
> (and then both might need renaming for clarification, but that's up to
> the guru).
> 
>> We need to standard keywords.
>>
>> Imho, we could create some SPELLALIAS= entry in DETAILS for names
>> used by other distros and gaze search could use it.
> 
> No need for an alias, just add it to the KEYWORD entry, IMO.
> 


Sure would be simpler to manage such things were all the perl spells
named perl-$thinger.

It'd be trivial at a glance to see what belongs to what, and it doesn't
really cost much. Most things this would affect are dependencies of
spells, ie: bugzilla needs perl-wtfeverything

It'd make the depends of spells that need perl modules somewhat self
documenting, as you could easily note that this spell needs lots of perl
modules.

Just my $0.02.

David