[aur-general] Perl pkgbuild and module names beginning with Perl::

[John D Jones III]

On 4/6/15 8:48 PM, Xyne wrote:
> On 2015-04-06 11:00 -0600
> John D Jones III wrote:
>
>
> I'm in favor of very minor user inconvenience (typing "perl-") if it leaves the
> package ecosystem systematically(/programmatically) consistent. The
> "redundancy" permits a direct translation of CPAN module names to package names
> without having to handle exceptions. It also avoids possible name collisions in
> the future, e.g. Perl::Foo and Foo.
>
> Keep in mind as well that while it is trivial to convert a CPAN name to Pacman
> name without the redundancy (simple check for "perl-perl-"), the other way
> becomes more complicated if you have to query CPAN for "Foo" and "Perl::Foo"
> given a list of pacman package names.
>
> I really don't want to introduce exceptions to a global rule just to remove 5
> characters from a handful of package names. It isn't justifiable technically
> imo.
>
> Regards,
> Xyne
>

I don't really have a big problem with perl-perl-$name per se, but some 
modules are known by their executable more so than the module name, 
perlcritic and perltidy being two examples of this, but I can see where 
having Perl::Foo and Foo causing problems. But I guess the scope should 
be for these modules such as perl-critic perl-tidy etc. Especially the 
packages that have been in the system since 2008 or older. I don't make 
any special case for modules, such as Perl::MinimumVersion, it got AUR 
name perl-perl-$etc, I just don't want someone out there thinking 
they're being helpful by taking Perl::Critic and creating a conflicting 
package with perl-perl-critic, since perl-critic has existed much longer 
and has 73 votes... this is just going to cause problems. If we're going 
to enforce perl-perl- for all AUR, then should it be enforced on the 
Official Repos as well? gtk2-perl? perl-tidy? glade-perl? etc?

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John D Jones III
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