Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk

[Adam Weinberger]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Adam Weinberger píše v pá 27. 05. 2005 v 03:15 -0400:
> 
>>Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>
>>>adamw, do you still want to change the name (foobar2 -> foobar) if 
>>>there  is no two of it?
>>
>>I can't even begin to explain how imperative I think this is. The 
>>following steps must take place:
> 
> 
> Generally, I like it.
> 
> 
>>   2. The name should reflect the proper package name whenever possible 
>>(i.e. gnome-desktop, not gnomedesktop).
> 
> 
> This would go against rule of not using dashes in port names for other
> reasons then prefixes/postfixes. That said, I still support your
> proposal here.

We've gotten out of that habit lately, thankfully. GNOME now has a 
number of apps and libraries that contain dashes in the name. I think it 
makes things clearer. AFAIK the "no dashes" rule was put in place to 
make ${PKGNAME} parsing simpler, which is no longer an issue.

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