Hi, On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:37:20PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:23:52PM +0100, Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> was heard to say: > > Thus my question: why are all these packages called gtk-engines-foo? > > For Eds packages, it makes sense, although it would probably be more correct > > to call them gtk-engine-foo as each of them contains only one theme engine; > > but for the others there's no valid reason at all. > > Yes there is; they're all GTK+ theme engines, and the intent is to > indicate that in the package name. (it's arguable that there are better > names, but that's why they're all the same) I realize that they are actually all engines; however the current package names do not reflect that they are *themes*, and that is what 99% of the people would install them for. (Not for taking the engine supplied and write their own them with it) > The themes from the GTK+ source were, for obvious reasons, the first > ones, and everyone else independently modeled their names and > descriptions after those. For the original themes, it makes sense, as mentioned in my original post, but not for the others (IMO). > If you want to rename them all to gtk-theme-foo or something, I would > go along with it, but with the freeze coming soon, you'd have to do a > lot of convincing of other people. It's not a good time to start pushing for this, agreed. > Especially since the gtk-engine-* > convention was established some time ago, and we'd need to make sure > that people upgrading from stable don't lose their theme engines. > (read: Lots Of Dummy Packages) And this is the only good reason (the freeze is only a temporary issue) I see to not change current packages' names. Although they will not really "lose" them without dummy packages; only they won't get new versions anymore. Anyway, I think I'll still go ahead and package Crux as gtk-theme-crux within a couple of days, unless someone starts to cry out loud right now. Regards, Filip -- "I will go further and claim that _no_ major software project that has been successful in a general marketplace (as opposed to niches) has ever gone through those nice lifecycles they tell you about in CompSci classes." -- Linus Torvalds on the evolution of the Linux kernel
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