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#1 2005-01-30 21:04:48
- mgushee
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Hyphenated package names considered harmful?
The other day I glanced at the Package Making HOWTO on the Wiki, and I happened to notice a passage stating that package names should not be hyphenated. However, I notice that a number of existing packages do have hyphenated names.
So what's the deal? Should we really avoid hyphens, and if so, why?
(BTW, I'm with the LISPers on this issue: hyphens are fairly natural to type and are thus cool; underscores are an abomination, so I'd really like to use hyphens).
Matt Gushee
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#2 2005-01-30 23:01:02
- Dusty
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Re: Hyphenated package names considered harmful?
My mistake... long time ago.
Its the $pkgver and $pkgrel that should not contain hyphens. Names are ok.
hyphenate away. 
I'll update the wiki.
Dusty
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