Re: Package naming rant

Hubert Chathi <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Apr 2016 17:23:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:47:34 +0000, Aigars Mahinovs <[email protected]> said:

> You can make a openstack-fuel-agent package and it will be clear that
> it is useless to people that do not know what openstack is. ...

Not necessarily: "openstack-fuel-agent" (by itself) can just as easily
be understood (by someone who has no idea what OpenStack is) as "a fuel
agent named openstack", just like the "chromium-browser" package is
(was) "a browser called Chromium", or "ninja-build" is "a build system
called ninja".  So someone who is looking for, say, a fuel tracker might
not be any less confused by "openstack-fuel-agent" than by just
"fuel-agent".