Re: Package naming rant

Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:29:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
]] Hubert Chathi 

> 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".

The chance of somebody using Debian knowing what OpenStack is is much,
much higher than the chance of them knowing that fuel (or neutron or
nova or whatever) is an openstack component and making the connection
between those two.