Renaming of fuse-encfs and fuse-sshfs to encfs and sshfs respectively.

Tim Jackson lists at timj.co.uk
Mon Oct 23 22:13:15 UTC 2006


Peter Lemenkov wrote:

> It's obvious, that people will simply type
> # yum install encfs
> then they want to install encfs, not
> # yum install fuse-encfs

Actually, it's not. I think I would probably go for "fuse-encfs", since 
I would associate it with fuse. Admittedly I'm not Joe Inexperienced 
User, but I don't think that makes it invalid.

Also is there a namespace issue here? Do any of the fuse FS modules have 
the same names as real (non-userspace) filesystem 
drivers/managers/tools, or the potential to do so? If so, that could be 
confusing at least.

I would just add a "Provides:" if you think it's really necessary (and 
it doesn't conflict with anything else), but I wouldn't rename the packages.

Tim




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