package naming question: muse -vs - MusE

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 8 21:20:41 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:16 -0700, Anthony Green wrote:
> 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.

Why cant it be renamed? emacs-muse would be better for a emacs
extension.

> 
> 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)?

I dont see a conflict but it is confusing and it might be better to
stick with small case for package name.

Rahul




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