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Re: Renaming of automake to automake1.4



On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:39:25PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Wow, the last thing I expected was people to have a problem with the
> name :) Well I'm open to other suggestions if necessary. I think its a
> good virtual package name in that it almost certainly won't conflict
> with any actual package's name.

Hmm... so this is a name that a package would depend on to say "I need
an automake, it doesn't matter which".  Here we have a group of packages,
all similar to the abstract idea of an automake, but somehow deformed
so that they don't fit together.  Might I suggest "automakoid"?

Richard Braakman



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