Jens, I happen to mostly agree with you. However, the guideline I
created is taking the package naming guidelines for emacs add-ons as
gospel, as this was discussed a lot before being decided on, and the
reasons for chosing the current scheme were a bit convoluted. See
these threads for the long discussions:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-May/msg00262.html
(you'll need to read through a fair few posts to see how it evolved)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-May/msg00740.html