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Re: Package Pool Proposal



On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 10:12:33AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 04:39:05PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:48:42PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Not really, they will just be stored that way on the FTP site. When
> looking for a lib package, you would just discard the 'lib' prefix.
> In any case, this is not my proposal.

they will be sorted as foo-lib. If they will be still named libfoo
some not warned user will surely fail to locate them

Im not againts libfoo naming


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