on Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:31:12PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt (hamish@debian.org) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:36:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes: > > > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines. > > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and > > > saw very few packages with plain English names. > > > > And this is significant because ... ? > > Because it demonstrates that most people thing plain English > names are too generic and therefore not suitable for package names. Count me in. Try doing a Google search trying to identify issues with that oh-so-distinctively named MSFT blasphemy called, um, "Word". Minor variants -- WordPerfect, AbiWord, WordStar, fare much better. Note that some other MS products -- Excel and PowerPoint come to mind -- don't suffer this problem. OTOH, "Office", "Project", "Money", "Windows" do. Distinctive, descriptive software and package names strongly preferred. "water" IMVAO is far too generic. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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