On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:12 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Anthony Green (green@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > >> There are some discussions about merging parts of PlanetCCRMA into > >> Fedora Extras. One of the problems has to do with package namespace > >> conflicts. For instance, PlanetCCRMA has had a "muse" package for many > >> years (http://www.muse-sequencer.org). But now FE has an emacs > >> extension package called "muse". > >> > >> One of the suggestions was to use the official project spelling of > >> "MusE" for the package name. Do the Extras packaging guidelines allow > >> this (having both MusE and muse package)? > >> Some combination of CVS, bugzilla, and/or the buildsystem I suspect would > >> break. > >> > >> Frankly, I'd rename the emacs thing emacs-muse, but that's just me. :) > > Why not call the CCRMA packages "<package>-CCRMA"? That way there's no > conflicts. Because they are not part of CCRMA. Same reason for not naming extras packages "extras-whatever". -- Fernando > If this is just a spec file change, it won't affect CVS, and > it's a relatively trivial build change. As for Bugzilla... well, I don't > know what kind of automatic hooks the software has into submitting bug > reports, but it should not be hard to strip the trailing -CCRMA for > submitting. > > However, in this one case, I agree with the idea that if muse is an > emacs add-on, it should probably be emacs-muse.
