Hi mentors, First, I have an opinion question: I'm maintaining the gnu-smalltalk package, and I'm considering splitting it up into several packages (X and non-X for starters). If I do so, the resulting packages will have rather long names (gnu-smalltalk-common springs to mind). Would it be a good idea to rename the package "gst"? It's nice and short, and the interpreter executable is called "gst". Is it considered bad form to rename a package unless absolutely neccesary? AFAIK, it's not technically difficult in a case like this. Secondly, supposing I did rename the package, is it okay to keep installing to /usr/share/gnu-smalltalk, /usr/lib/gnu-smalltalk, etc? Does the install path have to match the package name (i.e. /usr/share/gst)? The previous maintainer moved the default installation location (/usr/share/smalltalk) seemingly only to match the package name, and I'm curious if that was neccesary. I don't see anything indicating that in Policy or the FHS... If I change the install directory for whatever reason, could that break anything? Thanks in advance... -- Brett
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