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Re: Announcing type-handling



On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:21:25PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op ma 05-01-2004, om 14:47 schreef Robert Millan:
> > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:58:44AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Well, since packages are not expected to [Build-]Depend on this package
> > > > directly, but rather only on the virtual packages it Provides, changing
> > > > the name shouldn't be much of a problem.
> > > > 
> > > > How does "dpkg-type" sound to you?
> > > 
> > > Better, but I think it needs to mention "arch". "dpkg-arch-type"?
> > 
> > Too ugly.. what about dpkg-arch?
> 
> Confusing. I read your reply without reading the context first, and
> thought you were referring to "dpkg-architecture", which is something
> entirely different...

Not to mention that the dpkg-* namespace belongs to dpkg, and
everybody else can stay the hell out.

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