-bin packages?

Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org
Fri Sep 19 19:08:00 GMT 2003


Christopher Faylor writes:

> What do people think about this?  I would like to be consistent in package
> naming and it seems like most packages put their binaries in a package sans
> -bin.  There is an empty tetex package but I don't understand the need
> to complicate things this way.

I just copied Debian's package layout, except that Cygwin needs the
'root' package.  Tetex is built from two source packages, which
complicates matters a bit.

Jan.

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