What to do about libc-client (imap)?
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Mon Sep 20 14:20:49 UTC 2004
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:45:47AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:34:06PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> >>Is this really worth more years of headache? Here are two proposals to
> >>deal with this.
> >
> >
> >I don't think there is strong enough motivation to rename the packages.
> >If Fedora Extras wishes to maintain an "imap" package then they can do
> >so without needing to rename libc-client, modulo bug #132928. So I've
> >built a libc-client package without the "Conflicts: imap" to fix that
> >bug.
>
> I still maintain that "libc-client" is a horrible name for the package,
> but this is technically acceptable at least.
Yes, it would be for almost every package in Fedora. Maybe we could
rename every package to libc-client-xxx, the kernel to
libc-server-yyy, and glibc to libc,the?...
libsomething is a common name, why not change to libimap?
Regards,
Luciano
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