Re: Prefixes for packages according to every category

On 16 Mar 2004 at 20:20, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Tue Mar 16, 2004 at 07:2426PM +0100, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > since with DataGrid the request has been raised by Lukas that all > > packages should use the category-prefix, I'd like to propose to > > include the official prefix for every category in the manual > > somewhere. Maybe simply in brackets after the category-name? Somebody > > got a better suggestion? > > The problem is that the relation between categories and prefixes is > not necessarily bijective: There may be more than one prefix for each > category, which kind of defeats your plan. (Unless I'm missing > something.) Currently there are - and there are even many packages without any prefix. So I asked whether it's possible for new packages to get properly prefixed (according to Lukas' suggestion). This would however require that we define one prefix for each category, which seems doable. The only problem we've discovered so far are File Format / File System, which both use File_. And it seems that even some of the packages are in the wrong category anyway. So I wondered if they should be merged. Stefan