On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le lundi 07 février 2005 à 23:59 +0100, Axel Thimm a écrit : > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:34:10PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Do you imagine the mess if ~ 1000 java-something hit rawhide ? Because > > > we have this number of java packages in jpackage. > > > > Regardless of naming issues, are indeed 1000 packages waiting to be > > imported into rawhide? I.e. will all of jpackage be imported? > > I don't think so (who knows;) > But if the java-xx virus caughts on we'd have to preemptively rename a > lot of stuff just in case it gets imported someday (to avoid packagename > conflicts later) > > Not fun at all;( Well, that's why a policy should have been made at the very start. Naming is very important and the lack of a naming policy is causing all sorts of confusions and problems (like the lack of a 'virtual package' namespace). And the longer we wait, the more messy it becomes the day one is required. Unless it is worked around by adding complexity/layers. -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
