Re: RFS: gnome-configurator - utility to edit advanced gnome settings in easy way
Le dim 29/08/2004 à 20:44, Amaya a écrit :
> Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > The package name doesn't have to be descriptive, it must be the name
> > of the program, nothing more.
>
> s/descriptive/user friendly/g
I feel like package name should be close to upstream's name, because we
want user to install like: "I want to install COG, how am I going to do
it? This is Debian, so I guess apt-get install cog should be the right
thing." And Bingo, it was! ;-)
Well, this was the novel-way to describe it.
Let's discuss it here.
> > Uptsream's tar.gz is still named "cog" also.
>
> Friendly joke:
> Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
> A: Because upstream said so
Of course, but as it is a relatively new and tiny program, we could talk
to the upstream author about that. Right?
> What I mean is that I like it better, nothing else :-)
I don't agree, because, as I already said, "GNOME Configurator" doesn't
really tell what it does. "COnfigurator for GNOME" tells it better, I
think, but is not suitable as package name.
Sven is probably right also that "cog" is a way too short name, and we
risk namespace pollution, but if no-one never takes the name, it doesn't
make sense either.
> And upstream doesn't always have to be right.
Especially if it is using Fedora, you're right ;-)
So, what do we do?
--
Jérôme Warnier
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