[aur-general] Packaging all CRAN packages for R

[Daniel Capella]

$lang-$name should be used for libraries. If $name is taken, consider
$name-$lang or $name-$author:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Python_package_guidelines#Package_naming

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Levente Polyak via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On May 26, 2018 6:04:48 PM GMT+02:00, Alex Branham via aur-general <
> aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> >already 130ish R packages on the AUR. I named them r-cran-* rather than
> >r-* because 1) it's clearer where the packages are coming from and 2)
> >it's a pain to search for r-*
> >
>
>
> Please stop naming packages including where they come from, they should
> only contain its name and language, not the source. We never want cpan for
> perl, pypi for python or whatever. Also it. Doesn't quite make sense to
> search for r2-* at all, either way, please definitively leave cran out of
> packages names.
>
> Cheers
>



-- 
Best,
polyzen