[aur-general] What should guile-git be named on AUR?

藍挺瑋 lantw44 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 9 11:50:14 UTC 2017


Celti Burroughs via aur-general 於 西元2017年12月09日 18:02 寫道:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:44:19 +0800
> 藍挺瑋 via aur-general <aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> I am going to upgrade guix to 0.14.0 on AUR. It requires a new library
>> called 'guile-git', which is a guile binding for libgit2 and it can be
>> found on https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git. However, there is
>> already a package called guile-git on AUR, which is the git snapshot
>> version of 'guile' package. What is the recommended name for this new
>> package to avoid conflict?
> 
> It seems to me that any of `guile-libgit`, `guile-git2`, or
> `guile-libgit2` would work — I'd recommend the first or the
> third, as the second might be misinterpreted as a duplicate
> of the `guile-git` package.
> 

There is another library called 'guile-libgit2'
(https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-libgit2), so I think it should be
avoided even if I am not going to package it. 'guile-libgit' looks
confusing because the underlying library is called 'libgit2'. Maybe
'guile-git-lib' is better?


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