Re: What to do about libc-client (imap)?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <strange nsk no-ip org>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:45:47AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 06:34:06PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> >>Is this really worth more years of headache?  Here are two proposals to 
> >>deal with this.
> >
> >
> >I don't think there is strong enough motivation to rename the packages.
> >If Fedora Extras wishes to maintain an "imap" package then they can do
> >so without needing to rename libc-client, modulo bug #132928. So I've
> >built a libc-client package without the "Conflicts: imap" to fix that
> >bug.
> 
> I still maintain that "libc-client" is a horrible name for the package, 
> but this is technically acceptable at least.

Yes, it would be for almost every package in Fedora. Maybe we could
rename every package to libc-client-xxx, the kernel to
libc-server-yyy, and glibc to libc,the?...

libsomething is a common name, why not change to libimap?

Regards,
Luciano