Jason, > If you discount the guidelines for multiple parallel-installable > versions of the same package, we don't really have an established naming > convention for alternate versions of a "thing".
Thanks for mentioning it and the detailed explanation. I did misunderstand it. I understand what you are talking about. Yeah, the suffix style "parallel-rust" looks better. Jun On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > >>>>> "JA" == Jun Aruga <jar...@redhat.com> writes: > > JA> Perl: perl-foo Python: python-foo NodeJs (NPM): nodejs-foo Ruby: > JA> rubygem-foo R: R-foo PHP: php-foo Golang: golang-foo > > Those are all for libraries in the given language. > > JA> The prefix pattern "rust-parallel" looks better. > > This is not a library written in rust. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines# > Library_or_Application.3F > > If you discount the guidelines for multiple parallel-installable > versions of the same package, we don't really have an established naming > convention for alternate versions of a "thing". Best I can think of are > things like libart_lgpl (which doesn't and maybe never did have a > non-lgpl version), reentrant versions of libraries like libqhull_r > (which has the least useful package %description I've ever seen), though > those aren't generally packaged separately, or, I don't know, > chromium-libs-media-freeworld (which I know isn't a Fedora package). > > Honestly I'd just pretend that what you have really _is_ a different > version of the same package, but instead of being version '3', it's > version 'rust'. And for that we have > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming# > Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name > which would suggest "parallel-rust". > > For the actual executables, we have a long tradition of prefixing 'k' > for kerberized versions of things, and postfixing version numbers, > sometimes with dashes. Which really doesn't clarify much of anything. > About all we can say with certainty is that this package can't install > /usr/bin/parallel. > > - J< > -- Jun Aruga jar...@redhat.com IRC: jaruga, Office: TPB(Technology Park Brno) Building C 1F, Brno, Czech Republic
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