OT: yum truncating

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 8/28/05, Jack Tanner <ihok at hotmail.com> wrote:
> $ rpm -qa | wc -L
> 52

tsk tsk tsk... go back and do that with just the package name and not
the name-version that rpm -q  uses by default and exlude things like
kernel-module packages where there is no established policy to follow
with regard to naming. I do this on my system
rpm -qa |grep -v kernel-module|wc -L  -> 46
rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n"|grep -v kernel-module|wc -L 32

Leaving the kernel-modules in and I get 60/41. I will reinterate that
kernel-modules are not covered by Fedora Extras packaging guidelines.

Since you have given up on talking about extremes, such as "damning
physical constraints" I'll reiterate. Packaging naming is a matter of
policy. If the important bits about a package are 20 or 30 characters
deep into the name, that is very much a naming policy problem.  There
needs to be some thought into making sure the parts of the xorg
component names that are unique live inside the first 20 or so
characters. If you have polluted the first 20 characters with just a
sequence of non-unique preface that corresponds to several packages
thats a general readability problem.

-jef