On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 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
No debian packages currently begin with 'deb-'; let's not introduce a
new prefix.
Julian
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