On 28/04/07, Tom Tromey <tromey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was wondering this recently for Emacs-related packages. Some are called "emacs-whatever" but there are exceptions, for instance w3m-el. Having "emacs" in the name is nicer for searches.
Emacs add-on package naming is covered in the guidelines. It is complicated by the existence of Xemacs and the fact that many add-on packages work for both GNU Emacs and Xemacs. (X)Emacs that work for either version of emacs should have the main package called emacs-common-foo, with a sub-package containing files specific for GNU emacs called emacs-foo, and a subpackage containing files specific for XEmacs called xemacs-foo. In this case the main package emacs-common-foo will be required by emacs-foo and emacs-foo and will contain the files that are not specific to either version of emacs. An example is emacs-common-muse. Where a package is only built for GNU Emacs, the main package name is emacs-foo (see eg. emacs-auctex or emacs-vm). Presumable, if a package was only meant for XEmacs, it would be called xmeacs-foo. I don't think there are any of the latter packages. There are a number of packages that don't yet follow these naming guidelines, which should be fixed. These are generally packages that were in Fedora Core and moved to Extras before these Extras guidelines were established. They need fixing. Jonathan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
