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Re: texlive-basic_2005-1_i386.changes REJECTED



Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over
> > foo-documentation-ukenglish. This allows to filter documentation
> > packages by name (doc-* or *-doc), and following the standardized
> > ISO abbreviations also seems to be better than using yet another
> > scheme.
> >
> As a user, I much prefer 
>     foo           
>      + libfoo     
>      + foo-doc-en
>      + foo-doc-fr
> rather than   
>     foo           
>      + libfoo     
>      + foo-en-doc
>      + foo-fr-doc
> 
> To me the hierarchy tree 
> <package>-<sub-package-type>-<language/locale>
> is much more natural than 
> <package>-<language/locale>-<sub-package-type>

It may look more natural, but it makes pattern matching harder
(e.g. python-docutils is a false positive for the naive approach).


Thiemo



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