From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Font package naming convention Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:32:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20141030173207.GA17993@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr> References: <87oaswbs72.fsf@gmail.com> <87bnowlimh.fsf@gnu.org> <20141029221647.GA29707@debian> <87d29af24q.fsf@gmail.com> <20141030075640.GB27584@debian> <8738a5g1nh.fsf@gmail.com> <87ioj1sccx.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XkEG0-0005wR-O5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:38:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xjta1-00052g-3U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:32:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ioj1sccx.fsf_-_@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost 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