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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:44:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20587.57038.690414.911541@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121003050446.GB6508@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net>

>>>>> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> On 15:13 Thu 27 Sep     , Brian Harring wrote:
>> What for?  So someone can name their package foo-1?  Is that really 
>> such a major gap we're willing to induce breakage?
>> 
>> Will anyone even !@#*ing use a package names foo-1?  I've yet to see 
>> an example given, just ignoring of the breakage it will induce.

> I tend to agree. What value does this provide? It creates additional 
> work for no proven real-world benefit.

As I said before, the point is that the PMS isn't consequent, and
that there is a discrepancy between Portage and the PMS. Portage
is stricter because it also forbids package names like foo-1a or
foo-1_alpha that could be confused with a package name followed by
a version.

(Something along the lines of "a hyphen followed by a digit must not
occur anywhere in a package name" would be even simpler. We cannot
do that because there are packages like font-adobe-100dpi that don't
conform with it.)

Ulrich


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  9:24 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 Fabian Groffen
2012-09-25  9:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27  6:19   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27 22:13     ` Brian Harring
2012-09-28  0:14       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-28 12:12         ` Brian Harring
2012-10-03  5:04       ` Donnie Berkholz
2012-10-03  6:44         ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2012-10-03  6:56           ` Matt Turner
2012-10-03  8:31             ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-29 15:51     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-29 16:04       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-29 16:10         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-25 19:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-02 11:30   ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-03 17:18     ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-04 18:32       ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05  6:28         ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-05  6:41           ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05  6:43           ` Patrick Lauer
2012-10-05  8:46             ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-05 10:31               ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-05 14:51                 ` Jeff Horelick
2012-10-05 17:35                 ` Pacho Ramos

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