extension of lsb packages

Matt Wilson msw at redhat.com
Mon Mar 4 06:33:10 PST 2002


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:01:45AM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote:
> 
> Many package names are already long enough as it is.  Making them longer:
> 
>   lsb-apple-quicktime-core-13.2-1.update2.i386.lsb
> 
> (simply by way of hypothetical example) is a bit too much, don't you
> think?

Also, don't confuse the package name with the filename of the on-disk
package.  You could have a package named 'lsb-apple-quicktime-core'
on-disk as 'quicktime-core.lsb' if you wanted.

Cheers,

Matt




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