[arch-dev-public] KDE Package Guidelines (aka AUR plasmoids mess)
Hi all, I just received a mail where the user ask me to rename a plasmoid package in AUR. He suggests to rename it as kdeplasma-addons-applets-$plasmoidname, but this is obviously wrong as kdeplasma-addons is the name of the *official* KDE package. If we would rename all our packages in that way, will be really difficult, for both users and maintainer, to understand if we are talking about an official kde plasmoid or not. So, I thought about two naming conventions: * kdeplasma-applets-$plasmoidname * plasma-applets-$plasmoidname Sincerely, I prefer the first one as all kde packages start with the kde prefix. I also wrote a simple KDE package guidelines page[1] taking this opportunity. Any suggestion is much appreciated. The absence of this naming convention created many duplicates on AUR, so let's start the AUR plasmoid cleanup! Thanks! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Package_Guidelines -- Andrea
On 07/15/2012 11:01 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
If we would rename all our packages in that way, will be really difficult, for both users and maintainer, to understand if we are talking about an official kde plasmoid or not.
Why does it matter whether an applet is from KDE upstream or a thrid party? You can run pacman -Si oder cower -i kdeplasma-whatever and look at the homepage URL to see where it came from if you really need to know, but I don't see any need for changing the package name here. -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
On Sunday 15 July 2012 11:18:05 Florian Pritz wrote:
Why does it matter whether an applet is from KDE upstream or a thrid party? You can run pacman -Si oder cower -i kdeplasma-whatever and look at the homepage URL to see where it came from if you really need to know, but I don't see any need for changing the package name here.
Let's say we start to move some plasmoid from AUR to [extra]/[community] with the kdeplasma-addons-applets schema. So, I (user X which already installed the kdeplasma-addons group) type pacman -S kdeplasma-addons-applets and I press tab twice; the output is a very long list where the 80% 90% of those packages are already installed on my system. I found this annoying. Also, kdeplasma-addons-applets-$plasmoidname really sucks IMHO. -- Andrea
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Andrea Scarpino
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Florian Pritz