1 Jun
2011
1 Jun
'11
5:01 p.m.
I think renaming a package should be slightly cumbersome, and not that easy. Just one rename has the potential to create work for dozens of package maintainers because of dependency issues. Let's say that maintainers has to upload 10 updated packages per rename, and that there are 10 renames a day, it would be quite a bit of overall extra work, with some breakage and no clear win, except more total consistency of the system as a whole. (Of course, these are made-up numbers and may not be accurate...).