[Fedora-music-list] Re: package naming question: muse -vs - MusE

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 12/05/06, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/05/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> > I'm not an emacs users, but from all I can see I'll vote for the
> > solution spot suggested (e.g. emacs-common-foo).
>
> I much prefer emacsen-foo.
>
> Why do we need the word "common" in a package name? It makes sense in
> a subpackage name, but in a package name, it's confusing.

To go full circle, we could call the packlage emacs-foo, which builds
xemacs-foo as a subpackage, and also a emacs-foo-common subpackage,
required by both emacs-foo and xemacs-foo. This would no longer be
treating the xemacs package on an equal footing, but hey ho.