On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) > > >> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. > > > > > >If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about > > >filename lengths, I'd choose the latter. > > > > We already have arbitrary limits on filename length (~200 bytes or so > > on RockRidge), even before this. I'm just proposing to lower them for > > a common use case. Do we really care about supporting *very* long > > names here? > > I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy > that sort of imposes the long name... so if we put a too-short limit > then we're asking them to make an exception in the naming policy.
Yes. OTOH, do you really want to type "apt-get install package-with-policy-compliant-utterly-long-silly-name"? There's a point when package name lengths become problematic, and that isn't just true for ISO images. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110403184851.gb9...@celtic.nixsys.be
