From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 07:58:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEFB16A423 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 07:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A000543D4C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 07:58:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.140?) (tacopants@70.28.168.3 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 May 2005 07:58:24 -0000 Message-ID: <4296D31F.50700@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 03:58:23 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-CA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Thunderbird/1.0 OMFG PANTS X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pav@FreeBSD.org References: <1116099557.1389.10.camel@gyros> <4296C92F.2020601@FreeBSD.org> <1117179964.6783.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <1117179964.6783.2.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users , Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 07:58:26 -0000 Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Adam Weinberger píše v pá 27. 05. 2005 v 03:15 -0400: > >>Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> >>>adamw, do you still want to change the name (foobar2 -> foobar) if >>>there is no two of it? >> >>I can't even begin to explain how imperative I think this is. The >>following steps must take place: > > > Generally, I like it. > > >> 2. The name should reflect the proper package name whenever possible >>(i.e. gnome-desktop, not gnomedesktop). > > > This would go against rule of not using dashes in port names for other > reasons then prefixes/postfixes. That said, I still support your > proposal here. We've gotten out of that habit lately, thankfully. GNOME now has a number of apps and libraries that contain dashes in the name. I think it makes things clearer. AFAIK the "no dashes" rule was put in place to make ${PKGNAME} parsing simpler, which is no longer an issue. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx