[Fedora-packaging] plugin naming

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Jan 30 17:40:55 UTC 2007


Hiyas,

I want to ask for a Guideline on how to name plugins for a program/package.

Here are some examples of current plugin names:

xfce4-wavelan-plugin
thunar-media-tags-plugin
nagios-plugins-real
p7zip-plugins
lineak-xosdplugin
digikamimageplugins
childsplay_plugins
audacious-docklet

I want to propose to use
<package>-plugin-<pluginname>
for rpms that contain one special plugin and
<package>-plugins or <package>-plugins-<pluginscollectionname>
for rpms that contain several plugins.

This would make it a lot easier for a user to install or look for all plugins 
of a given package, e.g. with
yum list audacious-plugin\*
yum install audacious-plugin\*

Regards,
Till





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