Re: Package Pool Proposal
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 11:50:26AM +0100, Petr Cech wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 09:22:52PM +1100 , Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:26:33PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > > > If 857 is too big a number (I don't know that it is), make an
> > > > > exeption for lib packages and take the first letter _after_ `lib':
> > > >
> > > > Sneaky, I like that and it does seem to help alot!
> > >
> > > Confusing for manual downloads, though.
> >
> > IMHO not too much. If you see dirs a/, b/ ... lib/, m/ ...
> > you will know, where to look
>
> I think that is not quite right -- instead, there will be just
> a through z, but for example libgtk* would be in the g/ directory,
> libpng in the p/ directory.
What you are really proposing is changing libnaming convention from
libfoo to foo-lib.
If we have old convention everywhere else and new convention at
ftp sides (even virtually) it will make a lot of confusion.
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