[lsb-discuss] [Webdevel] Key for signing downloadable printer driver packages

[Wichmann, Mats D]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>> both apt and yum have ways to restrict what does get installed,
>> but really, a third-party repository should *not* be providing
>> packages that have the same name as ones being provided by the
>> distro.
>>
>
> I already was thinking about renaming the packages to lsb-... and also
> to rename the executable and filters which are linked into system
> directories to lsb-... or lsb_.... This way conflicts can get
> completely excluded and then I could remove the per-package repos and
> leave only one repo per LSB version.
>
>     Till

If you are able to do this, keeping namespaces clean this way is
definitely recommended.