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------- Additional Comments From seth AT tautology.org  2005-10-27 09:54 -------
what's so hard about:

lanana

or

smgl-nonlanana

if we allow:

nonlanana

then you're ensuring namespace collisions are possible.

As a distribution -- a third party responsible for managing these scripts -- 
we
are obligated to not stomp on the undefined lanana namespace just because we
have a script or daemon name.  nonlanana scripts could have quite different
semantics, too.  What happens when a nonlanana program needs two services and
you name them name1 and name2, but another distro names them name2 and name1 
or
name-foo and name-bar?

Moreover, if you're having a hard time finding a nonlanana script you only 
have
to check the smgl-* names for it since it's guaranteed not to be in the main
namespace.

We already decided upon a standard.  If there's no gain from this new proposal
(I see none that overcome the weaknesses of a less specific standard), then we
shouldn't change it.

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