[Bug 379751] Review Request: emacs-common-ess - Emacs Speaks Statistics add-on package for Emacs

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Summary: Review Request: emacs-common-ess -  Emacs Speaks Statistics add-on package for Emacs


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379751





------- Additional Comments From petersen at redhat.com  2007-11-19 00:12 EST -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> The packages do end up with "a single word like emacs". Specifically, "emacs".
> The data that's shared between the emacs and xemacs packages is called
> emacs-common.  I don't see the naming of the source package to be a real issue
> since users don't see it,

Well that is what appears in bugzilla, the buildsys, and other places,
so IMHO it is actually pretty important - specially as emacs-common-foo
packages start to proliferate.

> but if the guidelines had be presented suggesting that
> the SRPM be named emacs-foo regardless of which emacs variant the package
> supports then I wouldn't have objected although I suppose that would look odd
> in the case of an xemacs-only package.

I think xemacs only packages should be named xemacs-foo.

Anyway looks like we already have one more emacs-common-foo... :-/

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