On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> > and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> > would agree that `water' is far cooler
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Packages are at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian>
>(1.0.2 will be there shortly after I submit this bug report).
In case people were discouraged by 1.0.2 being somewhat broken with
regard to upgrading (oops), I uploaded 1.0.3 to the above
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> > and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> > would agree that `water' is far coole
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Packages are at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian>
>(1.0.2 will be there shortly after I submit this bug report).
In case people were discouraged by 1.0.2 being somewhat broken with
regard to upgrading (oops), I uploaded 1.0.3 to the above
> > Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> > and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> > would agree that `water' is far cooler that `water-demo'.
>
> Perhaps a more interesting question is `does this sort of program
> belong in Debia
> > Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> > and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> > would agree that `water' is far cooler that `water-demo'.
>
> Perhaps a more interesting question is `does this sort of program
> belong in Debi
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> would agree that `water' is far cooler that `water-demo'.
Well d00d UR 2 k00l f0r me.
Per
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and
> > > saw very few packages with plain English names.
> >
> > And this is significant because ... ?
>
> Because it demonstrates that most people thing plain English
> names are too g
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Morever, a common attribute of demos, which exist mainly to entertain
> and impress, is that they have striking names, and I think most people
> would agree that `water' is far cooler that `water-demo'.
Well d00d UR 2 k00l f0r me.
Pe
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and
> > > saw very few packages with plain English names.
> >
> > And this is significant because ... ?
>
> Because it demonstrates that most people thing plain English
> names are too
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:36:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines.
> > I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and
> > saw very few packages with plain English nam
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, so call it water-demo or waterdemo or something along those lines.
> I looked through the output of 'dpkg -l' on one of my systems and
> saw very few packages with plain English names.
And this is significant because ... ?
-Miles
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:38:15PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I disagree. The policy is to avoid namespace polution, which means
> > that package names should be as specific as possible. Imagine if
> > the first 26 packages were named a through z, ju
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