On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:11:28PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:52:55 +0200
Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
> What do you think about that idea?
My immediate reaction is that it adds more and more Provides that tools
have to process, making things slower and slower. It also gets us into
the game of "shortest name wins" once more with these things, but maybe
that's not a problem per se.
The aim is not to add more virtual provides, but have a consistent
naming for the proivdes such that there is a rule to find out the
virtual provide name.
My proposal is therefore like:
When a program provides a server listening on a given port, and a
virtual provide for that functionality is neeeded, the corresponding
provide should named server(port_name), port_name being the official
name of the port, as in /etc/services.
Why don't you work up a proposal on the wiki to consolidate all
these
things like 'web-server' that you want to change to a more commonly
As there is no common naming scheme I can't say what other virtual
provides exist beside smtpdaemon and webserver.
used server(web), generate a list of all the packages that would
have
to be changed both for provides and for Requires, propose a time for
the work to be done, etc.. Treat it almost like a Feature page.
I was gathering opinions before doing that.
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Pat