Andreas Enge (2014-11-01 12:45 +0300) wrote: > Alex, > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:36:30PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: >> I think the majority should decide. So if the most of guix people think >> that it should be named "bar", then let it be so. > > for this we would need an "infrastructure": a social contract, a voting > system and what else not, which seems a bit like overkill to decide on package > names. Even debian does not hold general resolutions for the names of their > packages...
I don't see a need in the infrastructure: there is guix-devel ML and there are only few people who is doing the most of work: you, Ludovic, Mark, Eric, Nikita, John, Cyril, David. So a majority of you should decide (IMO). >> However, I still think that having the following packages would be the >> best: >> ttf-bitstream-vera >> ttf-dejavu >> ttf-freefont >> ttf-liberation >> ttf-symbola > > Okay, could you please formulate your suggestion into a rule that we could > follow for other font packages than these five? My only rule is: the upstream name shouldn't always be blindly taken as a package name; if Guix developers think there is a more appropriate name, then use it.
