From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: mentors@gnu.org, david@altosw.be, ericbavier@centurylink.net,
guile-devel@gnu.org, mail.kristian@yahoo.it
Subject: Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:55:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv2dbj14.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ePG2k-0005oV-RI@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman writes:
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>
> > I'm sorry but I do not agree. Guile is not an implementation detail in
> > this case. It means that the package is based on Guile. It's like xterm
> > (a terminal for x window), gnome-terminal (a terminal based on the GNOME
> > framework) and so on.
>
> The reason this is not just an implementation detail,
> according to Christian, is that the dependence on Guile affects prerequisites.
> He thinks it would be inconvenient to put Guile-dependent programs
> and non-Guile-dependent programs together in one package.
>
> What do the rest of you think about this?
I think that if the package maintainer feels strongly about this, it's
reasonable to give them some leverage to rename the package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-20 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-09 13:46 Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils Christian Brunello
2017-12-12 18:11 ` Eric Bavier
2017-12-12 21:48 ` David Pirotte
2017-12-12 23:43 ` Christian Brunello
2017-12-13 0:01 ` David Pirotte
2017-12-13 8:34 ` tomas
2017-12-13 23:40 ` Freja Nordsiek
2017-12-14 12:14 ` Christian Brunello
2017-12-13 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-20 13:55 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]
2017-12-23 8:52 ` Christian Brunello
2017-12-12 23:11 ` Hans Åberg
2017-12-12 23:25 ` Christian Brunello
2017-12-13 23:02 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-14 1:39 ` Jay Sulzberger
2017-12-14 22:14 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-15 2:27 ` Nala Ginrut
2017-12-15 22:21 ` Jay Sulzberger
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