From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/24] gnu: gstreamer: Use license: prefix. Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:47:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20160817104751.4f2e7606@scratchpost.org> References: <20160816183938.22794-1-david@craven.ch> <20160816183938.22794-14-david@craven.ch> <87inv0ii7o.fsf@gmail.com> <20160816173803.24645a5e@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwW4-0000eb-EB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:48:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwVz-0000XS-Au for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:48:04 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:50208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZwVz-0000XK-3k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2016 04:47:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel , Alex Kost On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:02:26 +0200 David Craven wrote: > I wonder who started the #:prefix/#:select thing in the first place. I > don't think that anything from guix licenses is likely to cause a name > collision. Maybe it's best to remove the #:prefix entirely? Expat causes a name collision. Also nmap, boost, cecill-c, freetype, imlib2, openldap2.0, openssl, ruby, tcl/tk, vim, x11, zlib. Should there be new licenses it's a good guess it will be named like the package it originated in. I would not advise removing the prefix. If anything, use it everywhere.