Summary of the 2008-03-11 Packaging Committee meeting

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Mar 18 20:04:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:46:18PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <dominik at greysector.net> writes:
> 
> > I disagree. Should we introduce non-ascii characters into package names, I
> > want to be sure that it is possible to type them in a command line. While
> > you may choose to ignore CLI users, don't assume that everyone shares your
> > opinion.
> 
> CLI users should already know how to deal with characters they can't
> type. It isn't that hard to use wildcards or copy-paste.

Certainly not. It is very annoying to have to deal with character one
cannot type, especially in CLI.

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Pat




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