On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:39:10 -0500, Michael Favia wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 19:19, Steven Pritchard wrote: > > > > > > > >>So should those packages be renamed to whatever-doc (or *-doc be > >>renamed to *-docs)? > >> > >> > > > >FC3test1: 10 * -doc, 5 * -docs, 1 * -manual. > >fedora.us: 2 * -doc, 2 * -docs, 0 * -manual. > >rpmseek.com: 1204 * -doc, 129 * -docs, 141 * -manual (mostly JPackage) > > > >Dunno about renaming, but based on the above, -doc could at least be a > >recommendation for new packages (but then again, IMVHO -docs "sounds" > >better ;). > > > > > I ran into this same issue in naming database fileds in tables and > variables in my programming. I decided that the singular form is the > preferred way to go. Because i was normally refering to a single > instance of whatever the item was. In this case i believe the same rules > apply. The package really contains the "documentation" not the > "documentations". "docs" is short for "documentation files" (= ".doc files"). -- Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) - Linux 2.4.22-1.2197.nptl
