On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 17:18 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > 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... I think rrdtool* for sub packages works better from a end user stand point. Rahul -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
