Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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?
How about:
12345678901234
deb-docs -> deb-docs
deb-packaging -> deb-packaging
deb-policy -> deb-policy
deb-newmaintaibner -> deb-newmaintai
deb-devel-reference -> deb-devel-refe
?
