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Bug#261257: ITP: folding -- Folding@home Client (install package)



Thiemo Seufer wrote:
Nick Lewycky wrote:
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This packages is so non free that cannot even be included in the
non-free section without an installer. It's also only for i386.
dpkg will not be able to track its files.

"without an installer"? This package *is* an installer!

Then the package should probably be named "folding-installer".

Ugly package names suck. They don't fit in the first column of dpkg output. Worse, they're required, to be the name of the directory in /var/lib/ if the package needs to make one. "/var/lib/folding" is great, but "/var/lib/folding-installer" is terrible.

Of course, some packages (I count 12) do follow the installer-suffix form. I'd like to avoid it if at all permissible.

Nick



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