[csw-maintainers] [csw-devel] SF.net SVN: gar:[8215] csw/mgar/gar/v2

[Roger Håkansson]

Philip Brown wrote:
> 
> It's something like 32, yah. 

Ok

> However, that being said, having
> super-long package names looks very ugly in system level outputs (eg:
> pkginfo), so we discourage it :) the "software name" is supposed to be
> the informative one anyway.

Sometimes its hard to cut down the name in some good way.

gnome-object-introspection for example.
goject-introspection is a common name in Linux dists, but its still too 
long an we also need a development package.
CSWgobjectintrospectdev is still 24 chars...