Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] >>> I think the idea of a namespace for usernames used by packages is a good >>> idea, but rather than "debian-", we should take this to the LSB folk, so >>> that we can get it done once.
>> The problem with this is time. I need to add a system-user (for exim4) >> _now_. Shall I go for namespace, and if yes which one? _debian-exim, >> debian-dexim, DEB-exim? [...] > Fabbione and I will use debian-sks. We will summarize and file a bug > against policy next week or so (being quite busy right now). Feel free > to beat us with submitting a problem description and summary :) "debian-" is rather long. ls only shows the first eight characters. How about something ugly but shorter? * "Metacharacter" followed by "deb-", e.g. _deb-sks or "#deb-sks" * use capital letters. DEBsks cu andreas