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Re: Proposal: /etc/friendlynames



Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> wrote:

> On Friday 26 March 2004 00.41, Number Six wrote:
>> Proposal, additions to Policy and changes to dpkg:
>>
>> (1) Add to policy: all package names must be nongeneric [1].
>
> And watch the endless discussions on what, exactly, is a generic name and what 
> is not. Discussing this has, imho, worked well so far.

So a presupposed hyperrelativism will block here this interesting
proposal?

gnome-pdfviewer, gpdfviewer, are non-generic. pdfviewer is.
Is that so problematic? Who wants to argue about that?

-- 
Mathieu Roy

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