From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Font package naming convention
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:32:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030173207.GA17993@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioj1sccx.fsf_-_@gnu.org>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 06:20:46PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> There’s no documented convention (yet), so it’s not a mistake strictly
> speaking. :-)
We have a convention for package names, including fonts; so strictly speaking
it is a mistake.
> I think we must settle on a convention, and I would personally prefer to
> follow the principle of least surprise–i.e., choose a convention that is
> already widespread elsewhere.
We need not settle on a convention as we already have one for packages.
But we could choose another one close to the naming of python and perl modules
if enough people wish to have special rules for fonts.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-28 6:53 [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add 'ttf-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-10-28 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 22:16 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 7:27 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 7:56 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 12:52 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 13:36 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 17:20 ` Font package naming convention Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 17:32 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2014-10-30 22:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
[not found] ` <20141030191743.GB19999@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr>
2014-10-30 22:02 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-31 17:58 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 18:00 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:52 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-02 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-02 17:49 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-03 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-03 9:30 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-03 13:36 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-03 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 10:22 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-20 7:09 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-23 20:13 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add 'font-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-11-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:36 ` Font package naming convention Alex Kost
2014-11-01 9:45 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-01 10:55 ` Alex Kost
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