Re: fonts package naming guideline

["Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas mailhot laposte net>]

Le Jeu 10 juillet 2008 16:46, Felix Miata a écrit :
>
> On 2008/07/10 14:05 (GMT+0200) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed:
>
>> If I had to propose a convention today that would be
>
>> foundry-name-fonts (single package)
>> foundry-name-fonts-sub (subpackage)
>
> Great way to annoy people who use GUI package managers. They generally
> when attempting to search for possible fonts to install will get at
> least 20 times
> as many packages not actually containing fonts as packages actually
> containing fonts.

Good GUI package managers use repodata groups, either directly or
indirectly (ie packagekit). Expecting a unified fonts- prefix is not
workable with subpackages, short of performing deep rpm vodoo that
makes the link to srpm un-obvious and confuses users in bugzilla.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot