Re: How about some uniformity in doc names
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 11:38:47PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> > Package names henceforth will only be unique within sections.
> >
> > Then we have lib/z, lib/xpm, lib/Imlib. And doc/xpm, doc/gcc,
> > devel/gcc.
>
> You'll have to modify dpkg to support this.
Indeed. And that's in no way the only flaw.
I was envisaging a system where Imlib is auto-qualified to lib/Imlib,
unless it's ambiguous.
But, in our current setup, it won't work.
So I only threw out the idea to get people thinking about the way we name
packages.
Jules
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