Andrew Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > > FWIW, Debian package names prefer e.g. foo-en-uk-doc over > > foo-documentation-ukenglish. This allows to filter documentation > > packages by name (doc-* or *-doc), and following the standardized > > ISO abbreviations also seems to be better than using yet another > > scheme. > > > As a user, I much prefer > foo > + libfoo > + foo-doc-en > + foo-doc-fr > rather than > foo > + libfoo > + foo-en-doc > + foo-fr-doc > > To me the hierarchy tree > <package>-<sub-package-type>-<language/locale> > is much more natural than > <package>-<language/locale>-<sub-package-type>
It may look more natural, but it makes pattern matching harder (e.g. python-docutils is a false positive for the naive approach). Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
