Am Freitag, den 26.08.2005, 18:48 -0400 schrieb Mike A. Harris:
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Proposal:
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Here is my initial proposal for naming the src.rpms, along with
brief rationale, and the real (or perceived) advantages and
disadvantages:
xorg-x11-driver-<type>-<name>
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The only slight disadvantage to this naming scheme that
comes to mind which someone might point out, is that the
package names are semi-lengthy. I don't see this as a
problem however, as all modern shells have filename completion,
and it works quite well. The benefits of clarity of
contents, directory listing grouping, CVS repository grouping,
bugzilla grouping, etc., IMHO far outweigh any perceived
disadvantages of lenthy names.
Both yum (in its overview before the Transaction Summary and in some
other places) and rpm (when used with "-ivh" ) have problems with names
longer then ~23 characters (in yum the columns don't match in the
overview; during the download the name is striped after ~18 chars; in
the install-overview it is striped after around 30 chars. In rpm the
name is striped after ~23).
This is IMHO a minor problem cause the important part of the name is at
the end. For example
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon
is 28 characters long and you'll see this when installing:
# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon-1-2.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xorg-x11-driver-video-rad########################################### [100%]
Why not drop the x11. And/or use drv instead of driver and vid instead
of video? For example:
xorg-drv-vid-radeon
or maybe better
xorg-drv-video-radeon
instead of
xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon
Just my 2 cent. Otherwise I agree with the proposal.
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Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info>