On 06/18/2006 01:11 PM, Roy-Magne Mo wrote: > Lars E. Pettersson wrote: >> I have a question. Why do these subpackages have the following names: >> >> perl-rrdtool >> php-rrdtool >> python-rrdtool > > It's all explained in the packaging guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines But is not the parent in this case rrdtool, and therefore rrdtool-* the correct name? The perl-rrdtool package, as one example, adds a new functionality to the rrdtool package, and can not be used on its own, you need rrdtool (and perl also, I have to admit.) As the package also is very tightly coupled to the rrdtool package (comes from the same tar file, except php that uses a patch), rrdtool-perl seems much more logical than the reverse, IMHO. I can see a chicken or egg problem here, though... Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/ -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
