-=| Jonathan Yu, Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:31:41PM -0400 |=- > Hi: > > I'm curious about this bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114920 which didn't > reach a consensus. I'm not challenging the previous discussion, since > that discussion wasn't going much of anywhere. I was dreaming of naming the pakcages like perl-cpan-dist-name (saves 3 characters compared to the current naming scheme). However, the implications of such a change are far larger than the benefits, as I see it. > I'm mostly just curious about modules which have ::Perl as the last > part in the name. Keep it. > Namely, consider: > Modern::Perl packaged as libmodern-perl Wrong, as it clashes with a possible package of the CPAN dist of Modern. > But: > File::Find::Rule::Perl packaged as libfile-find-rule-perl-perl > > Note that the second one couldn't be packaged any other way, > because: > File::Find::Rule packaged as libfile-find-rule-perl Indeed. -- dam
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature