[Bug 522988] Review Request: dyndns - A dynamic DNS client for the free service afraid.org

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--- Comment #14 from Christoph Wickert <cwickert at fedoraproject.org>  2009-09-15 04:18:43 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> nah.  url was correct, I just hadn't updated the website to include info on
> this utility (I'm the packager and author)

I know. ;)

> I read the link but don't see anything wrong with the name.  what are you
> suggesting?  

Give this app a proper name. "dyndns" is a protocol or a generic term, but not
a name. We don't have "email", "smpt", "pop" or "parser" in Fedora, because if
we allowed names like these, we would have collisions pretty soon.

"dyndns" also sounds like a claim that this is the best or the official dyndns
client, although it only handles afraid.org but no other dyndns services.

You are the author, you can name this program whatever you like, but please
don't call it "dyndns".

(In reply to comment #8)
> well... what I don't like about %ghost is that when I do rpm -ql I want to see
> my cache file.  that file is useful since it contains the external IP address
> of my system and unless I can have it included in the listing, I won't
> necessarily know where it is  

True, but the file should not be included as a normal file because this will
confuse rpm -V.

BTW: /var/cache/dyndns shouldn't be a file but a directory containing that
file. Each app using /var/cache/ is supposed to have a directory of it's own.
Reading the definitions in
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARCACHEAPPLICATIONCACHEDATA
I'm not even sure if /var/cache/ is the proper place, but I have no better
suggestion ether.

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