Re: Libre games that might be worth packaging :)

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skrev: (18 mars 2019 16:32:26 CET)
>Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>>> It's named "armagetronad".  Shouldn't we name this
>>> "armagetron-advanced"?
>>
>> Instead of renaming the packages (whose names follow our packaging
>> guidelines) how about adding the full name of the games to the
>> description?
>
>That would not help interfaces like Emacs-Guix and
>Helm-System-Packages.
>I think names are more important than having obsolete packages :)
>
>-- 
>Pierre Neidhardt
>https://ambrevar.xyz/

I agree.

What about adding a pretty name to show the user that matches the marketing name of the software?

Arch seems to have this and it is used in the gui tools like pamac but not on the command line. 
We could solve this by adding a new optional field to the package record (pretty-name "Armagetron Advanced")

For the packages that lack this field I would in the gui display them like this:
(name "aircrack-ng") -> Aircrack-ng

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