Naming guidelines question
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 26 16:00:08 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:58 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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?
>
Do we expect users to notice the specific case of the upstream projects
in webpages, documentation and type it correctly in yum everytime?
Rahul
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