On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:43:29PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 01:31, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > [kov]@[beterraba] $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 > > > libgnome2-0: /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 > > > > I would have called this binary package libgnome-2-0. > > > > I find the "-2" part disgusting, but it's a disgustingness that is > > forced upon you by upstream. > > I've never heard a convincing argument against > http://ometer.com/parallel.html, just grumbling about aesthetics from > people who don't understand the problems being solved. I didn't mean to give offense; my grumbling was purely esthetic in tone. I have a personal, subjective distaste for the "-2" nomenclature, that is all. Since I do not measurably contribute to GTK+/GNOME development, please weight that subjective distate accordingly. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If existence exists, branden@debian.org | why create a creator? http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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