Re: Prefixes for packages according to every category

On Tue Mar 16, 2004 at 08:5153PM +0100, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > 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. While I understand the rationale behind this idea, I do not like that approach. Having the ability to choose from a pool of possible prefixes even in one category has always been a convenient thing and I would really like to keep it that way. Why don't we just settle on forcing packages to have a prefix, but still allowing multiple prefixes per category? This way we keep the advantages of the status quo, while at the same time keeping the "namespace" clean. > 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. I'd like to keep those two categories, since the only think they have in common is the similar name. Moving packages, which currently are in the wrong category, to the right one sounds like a good idea for me though. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/