On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:33 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > > 2009/5/9 Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola@xxxxxx>: > > [sorry, skipped] > > > Also, I find it a bit inconsistent that java packages don't have to have > > a java- prefix as python, perl, php and so on packages have to. > > I'm afraid that the idea with adding such prefixes was (and is) very > stupid. In order to separate lang-specific packages (except > sub-packages, like someapp-somelang) we should add more rpm groups, > like Development/Languages/FooLang Quite on the contrary. I think prefixes are quite useful, since many language specific packages might have otherwise conflicting names, e.g. I could imagine python-argparse, java-argparse and so on. RPM groups, on the other hand, aren't used for anything any more: comps are used instead. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
