[Fedora-packaging] tex related packages names

José Matos jamatos at fc.up.pt
Thu Aug 30 10:36:13 UTC 2007


On Thursday 30 August 2007 11:17:44 Jindrich Novy wrote:
> How about removing the prefix completely? Package description should be
> sufficient to figure out it ships a TeX related stuff and we don't have
> many of them currently. I see the only purpose of the prefix to avoid
> conficts with already existing packages, in that case (la)tex-* or suffix
> *-(la)tex is ok IMO.
>
> Jindrich

tex is a programming language, so IMHO we should follow the same rules as used 
for other programming languages, prefixing the package name with the language 
name.

-- 
José Abílio




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