Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:00:15 -0500:
> I made a fork of hwdata for Gentoo's needs on the LiveCD and it is > hwdata-gentoo (to match hwdata-knoppix and hwdata-morphix for their > respective distributions). I think it makes more sense to keep the > original package name first as it shows that it is a fork of that > package. Agreed if keeping the old name with a gentoo prefix/suffix is chosen. However, nearly all Gentoo system tools are e<whatever> (not only portage related either, as there's eselect), so I'd suggest eresolv. Even if resolvconf-gentoo is chosen, I'd definitely recommend an eresolv symlink, simply because doing so will allow it to be listed with e<tab><tab>, if one forgets the name. I recall back on Mandrake, reading the cooker discussion on their regret at the naming convention they had chosen, <whatever>drake, for that very reason -- no simple <prefix><tab><tab> method for listing all the Mandrake system tools. Gentoo has it right with the e* precedent. I believe we should continue to follow it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
