On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 01/27/2018 11:09 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >
> > I noticed that we have 7 packages on Fedora wallpapers with names that
> > only explain themselves to Fedora insiders:
>

So traditionally we follow upstream package naming. If we aim to deviate,
I'd prefer we have strong reasons for it.


> >
> > ...
> >
> > I was thinking that we could merge these packages into a new package
> > "x11-themes/fedora-backgrounds" or so with slots 11 to 16 so that people
> > can still install them in parallel, get slot updates automatically,
> > adding more recent ones does not add more packages, and the package name
> > explains itself.
>

Why not just make x11-themes/fedora-backgrounds, a metapackage that
includes all of the packages?


>
> If you do merge them, then it might be better to use flags for the
> different sub-packages rather than slots. There's no place to describe
> what a slot is for, but having a local USE=solar with a corresponding
> description in metadata.xml is (relatively) discoverable.
>

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