On 02/08/10 12:54, Romain Dalmaso wrote:
> I think fred is a good name, it means Freenet REference Daemon, and
> that's what this package is.
> The ? freenet ? term is probably present in the description of the
> package, isn't that enough for searching ?
> 

We don't use the name "fred" except internally. Even if "fred" comes up in the
results, most people will just skip past it and look for "freenet" first.

>From the Debian project's POV it's better if we prefix all our package names
with "freenet-", eg. "freenet-thaw", "freenet-fms", etc. (eg. there's already a
"freetalk" package). Then the main package should be called "freenet" /
"freenetd" / "freenet-daemon". (Using "fred-" as a prefix doesn't make sense.)

If you have a look at the package names of other projects with large codebases,
they follow a similar pattern - eclipse, openoffice.org, iceweasel, icedove, 
etc..

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