package naming question: muse -vs - MusE
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon May 8 21:32:08 UTC 2006
Anthony Green (green at redhat.com) said:
> There are some discussions about merging parts of PlanetCCRMA into
> Fedora Extras. One of the problems has to do with package namespace
> conflicts. For instance, PlanetCCRMA has had a "muse" package for many
> years (http://www.muse-sequencer.org). But now FE has an emacs
> extension package called "muse". So, assuming the emacs extension
> package can't be renamed, we need a new name for the musical muse
> package.
>
> One of the suggestions was to use the official project spelling of
> "MusE" for the package name. Do the Extras packaging guidelines allow
> this (having both MusE and muse package)?
Some combination of CVS, bugzilla, and/or the buildsystem I suspect would
break.
Frankly, I'd rename the emacs thing emacs-muse, but that's just me. :)
Bill
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