[csw-maintainers] /testing Some X11 proto updates

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Sep 23 18:13:51 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:43 AM, William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> After having some talk with Sebastian, i have the folowwing proposition.
> Since we are renaming some of the X11 packages to add a prefix, and about to
> do some mass change. What about adding a more explicit prefix ?
>
> For instance fooproto could be renamed to :
>
> a/ xfooxproto
> b/ x11-fooproto
> c/ x11proto-foo
> d/ x11proto-foo-devel
>
> Current proposition is a. My choice goes to d. I would like to also add the
> -devel suffix since it is a true devel package


d isnt a bad choice... the one issue being that it would look a little
silly for stuff that already has "x" in it.

x11proto_xext_devel

vs

x11proto_input_devel

people will probably gripe about "well how come Xexp, but no Xinput...?"



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