Armin K. wrote:

> How about packagename-packageversion then? I personally use packagename
> packageversion (no dash between name and version) or even a modified
> name (ie, GStreamer Ugly Plugins instead of gst-plugins-ugly). We could
> change remainging packages that contain spaces in their titles and
> xrefnames to the correct packagenames if necesary.

packagename-packageversion is the most common usage.  I just went 
through the for the entire book doing the package currency scripts. 
There I had to use the upstream names and spelling.

There are a lot of names that I don't like:

LVM2-2.02.98
expect5.45
sysvinit-2.88dsf
tcl8.6.0-src
tzdata2013d
iproute2-3.9.0
boost_1_54_0

I also don't like the version numbers like:

shadow-4.1.5.1

Do we really need major.minor.micro.patch numbers?  Three should be all 
that's needed.

Some versions have just gone to a sequential number:

kmod-14
systemd-205

But that's OK.

If it were up to me, I'd change a lot of these names, but it is really 
up to the developers so it's not my call.

For BLFS, we need to be consistent with upstream.  That said, I don't 
want to make a special effort to change the book right now.  Changing 
the entries as the packages are updated is OK with me.

   -- Bruce
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