On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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. And I think I already changed the packages all over to rrdtool-* yesterday. :) http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/plague-results/fedora-development-extras/rrdtool/ (though only for the development branch, I'll get to fc5 and 4 shortly) -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx
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