On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:11:45PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > Is there a really good reason why we shouldn't have long package names?
>
> dpkg -l, but this is not a really good reason :-)
I had thought of that one, and I agree with your evaluation of its
significance. You see, dpkg -l gives 14 columns of package name in an
80-column terminal, so you would see:
debian-doc
debian-packagi
debian-policy
debian-newmain
debian-develop
The only one which would be a problem is debian-developers-reference.
Maybe debian-devel-reference, chopped to debian-devel-r by dpkg -l?
Julian
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