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Subject: Re: xfree packages
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:34:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20020410053447.GA15157@redhat.com> (Christopher Faylor's
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Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:

> I think that these files should be called XFree86-base (or just
> XFree86), etc.  The project is the Cygwin/XFree86 project and I
> think the package names should reflect that.

Oh no, please reconsider allowing capitals in package names?  You'll
set a precedent for teTeX, GUILE, MySQL etc.  I'd vote for xfree86.

Jan.

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