RFE: Use generic names in packages

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Jun 29 13:31:34 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 14:21 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> > good packaging guideline for Fedora to follow which is to avoid using
> > the "Fedora" name as much as possible in package names and files with
> > exceptions like "Fedora directory server" and recommend using generic
> > names wherever possible.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245649
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245826
> 
> I have a couple of review requests which may be affected by the
> outcome of this discussion. Specifically whether one should append
> "fedora-" to the names of the *.desktop files or use the "X-Fedora"
> category in the *.desktop files installed by these packages in
> /usr/share/applications ?

The menu files we are shipping make no use of the X-Fedora category (and
the X-Red-Hat ones are being phased out too), so adding it will not
make any difference. 




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