[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/07/07, Martin Man <Martin.Man at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 02/07/07, Daniel Griffith <mechadaniel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Seperating package names and package file names is a ghastly solution
> >> to the problem, if I want to manually download a package called
> >> nvidia-drivers, I should be downloading a file called
> >> nvidia-drivers.***, not NVDAgraphics.***.
> >
> > Why does that matter?
>
> because if it walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck it must be a
> duck... no need to call it chair if, in fact, it's a ... duck

Yes, plus there always the issue of when a package has more than one
program in it. It is a bit difficult to distinctly name a package when
its actually a combination of things.

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