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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