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From: Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: guidelines for package names (namespaces?)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:55:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsg1E_Z-0neB+c46G-TT-+E+Z2tt9MfO=dauGBOKts886qvxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi, in Guix there seems no guidelines for package  names/namespaces
although there are conventions like Python packages prefixed with
python-...  (good).  However, this does not cover cases like Gnome
applications. For example, I submitted the original definition for
(the GNOME terminal package) terminator, and later I tried to rename
that gnome-terminator but that was rejected by reviewers.

Or GNU Guix maintainers may want to consider some type of name space
support in the package name space because I think name collisions will
be more and more likely as more packages are submitted for inclusion
in Guix.


             reply	other threads:[~2023-07-03 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-03 20:55 Andy Tai [this message]
2023-07-05 20:19 ` guidelines for package names (namespaces?) John Kehayias
2023-07-06  4:53   ` Csepp
2023-07-06 14:23   ` Andreas Enge
2023-07-06  9:28 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-07-06 15:24   ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-07-04 18:30 Juliana Sims

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