Naming guidelines question

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri May 26 15:58:23 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> From the user's perspective having to remember names is hard enough.
> Having to remember the case is just not worth it in my opinion. Moreover
> if package FOo is a completely different one from foo, we are adding up
> to even more confusion for end users. 
> 

This same argument applies when they see 'ORBit' is the name of the
package in documentation and upstream and wherever.  How confusing is it
that the package is really named 'orbit' when using yum?  Or querying
via rpm?

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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