On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 04:03:32PM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote:
> > Hmm. I think long-term it would be best to have the names be
> > kerneloops/kerneloops-applet. kerneloops-daemon/kerneloops is certainly
> > much better than kerneloops-nogui/kerneloops, but I think is still a bit
> > confusing. It may very well be justified by saving the current userbase
> > from having things change out from under them.
>
> We can set that as our goal and transition to it. So we should split
> the package into kerneloops-applet and kerneloops-daemon. Then create
> a new kerneloops dummy package which depends on kerneloops-applet.
>
> In a couple of years, we can rename kerneloops-daemon to kerneloops,
> and everybody should be happy.
>
> Computer Science Motto: All problems can be solved with an extra layer
> of abstraction ;-)
Yeah, that's probably the right thing to do.
I'll post a new version of the patch that makes kerneloops a transitional
package as you describe when I get a chance (probably in a week or two).
-Tim Abbott
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