Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

[Benny Amorsen]

"Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <dominik at greysector.net> writes:

> I disagree. Should we introduce non-ascii characters into package names, I
> want to be sure that it is possible to type them in a command line. While
> you may choose to ignore CLI users, don't assume that everyone shares your
> opinion.

CLI users should already know how to deal with characters they can't
type. It isn't that hard to use wildcards or copy-paste.

> Well, if you allow one non-ascii character (for example, é), you have to be
> prepared to go all the way, otherwise people will keep pointing at the former
> and saying "But you allowed THAT one!".

They can say that all they want. The community doesn't have to accept
their argument.


/Benny