On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:55:00AM +0100, José Matos wrote:
On Thursday 30 August 2007 08:30:53 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I propose tex packages to be named
> tex-something
> instead of
> tetex-something
Why not latex-something instead?
The packages are latex packages after all...
> I also think that it is not worth renaming existing packages with
> tetex-, at least for now, maybe later, but instead have them
> Provides: tex-something = %{version}-%{release}
As soon as tetex is gone the name tetex- will be weird. The funny part is
that we only have this problem because we have named the packages not
following our general guidelines (packages are named after the language, not
the implementation). ;-)
How about removing the prefix completely? Package description should be
sufficient to figure out it ships a TeX related stuff and we don't have many of
them currently. I see the only purpose of the prefix to avoid conficts with
already existing packages, in that case (la)tex-* or suffix *-(la)tex is ok IMO.
Jindrich
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