Am Freitag, den 26.08.2005, 18:48 -0400 schrieb Mike A. Harris: >[...] > Proposal: > ~~~~~~~~ > Here is my initial proposal for naming the src.rpms, along with > brief rationale, and the real (or perceived) advantages and > disadvantages: > > xorg-x11-driver-<type>-<name> > >[...] > > The only slight disadvantage to this naming scheme that > comes to mind which someone might point out, is that the > package names are semi-lengthy. I don't see this as a > problem however, as all modern shells have filename completion, > and it works quite well. The benefits of clarity of > contents, directory listing grouping, CVS repository grouping, > bugzilla grouping, etc., IMHO far outweigh any perceived > disadvantages of lenthy names. Both yum (in its overview before the Transaction Summary and in some other places) and rpm (when used with "-ivh" ) have problems with names longer then ~23 characters (in yum the columns don't match in the overview; during the download the name is striped after ~18 chars; in the install-overview it is striped after around 30 chars. In rpm the name is striped after ~23). This is IMHO a minor problem cause the important part of the name is at the end. For example xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon is 28 characters long and you'll see this when installing: # rpm -ivh xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon-1-2.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:xorg-x11-driver-video-rad########################################### [100%] Why not drop the x11. And/or use drv instead of driver and vid instead of video? For example: xorg-drv-vid-radeon or maybe better xorg-drv-video-radeon instead of xorg-x11-driver-video-radeon Just my 2 cent. Otherwise I agree with the proposal. -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
