Re: Choosing a package name

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Sun, 04 Aug 2002 19:08:20 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization	What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

"Stefan Karrmann" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If 2002/admin/daemontools are disappers, we can use the name
> 2004/admin/daemontools, etc. to denote a NEW package with similiar
> functionality.

Who are "we"?  Are programs to be expected to look for both?  What
benefit does this naming scheme provide?  If 2002/admin/daemontools is
registered for one package, is 2004/admin/daemontools still available
to be registered for another package?  If not, what does this provide
that we don't already have with versions?

>>>     20/02/:a/dm/in/da/em/on/to/ol/s-/0./72
>>
>> I don't think we need them to be *that* small.
>
> Well, there may be 1521 enties per directory do call this still small?

In practice, there wouldn't be.  Package names are mnemonic (so far,
anyway); random strings are not.

paul