From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?YWzDrXJpbyBleW5n?= Subject: Re: Proposal: Prefix language-name for language library packages Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:45:46 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avha0-0005qt-OX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:45:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avhZz-0006Xq-TK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:45:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::232]:34918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avhZz-0006Xf-MM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:45:47 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x232.google.com with SMTP id e201so67792832wme.0 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:45:47 -0700 (PDT) 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel: >Am 24.04.2016 um 20:57 schrieb Leo Famulari: >> What about C? Do we need c-linux-libre? ... >why e.g. libsodium does not need to be prefixed by "c-" the c bias is unix heritage. c-linux-libre-headers is good to contrast with cl-hurd[0] or pyhurd[1] similarly there are cryptography libraries for other languages[2] i agree to prefix every package which only interface is for a specific programming language. [0]http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/flaviocruz.html [1]http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pyhurd/ [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cryptography_libraries#Cryptography_libraries_and_their_origin