Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 68091
Package file names are inconsistently capitalized.
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:28:33 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) Description of problem: As far as I can see, there seems to be no particular set of rules for determing whether a package name is captialized. Compare: * GConf and gconf-editor * mysql and mysql-server with MySQL-Python and MyODBC. * python, pygtk2, and PyQt and PyXML * ORBit and orbit-python * SDL and smpeg. * xinitrc and XFree86 * Xaw3d and xawtv. * gimp and ImageMagick Administrators therefore cannot reliably predict the name of a given package file without using a specific tool, and may often assume that a particular program is not supplied with Red Hat Linux because it does not share the same name as similar programs, or the program to when it is a plugin, etc. kWnn or cWnn, ElectrixFence, FreeWnn and GuppiMagicPoint and MADEDEV Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: A test case: 1.Install python. 2.Try and guess the name of the package that provides pyqt (knowing that most packages that come with Red Hat Linux are in lowercase) Actual Results: The package is called capital P, lowercase y, capital Q, lowercase t Expected Results: It should have been named in the same was that the `python' package was. Additional info: Consistently naming packages doesn't fix a major problem, but it will mean one less task for administrators when installing packages on their Red hat Linux systems.
There are currently package naming guidelines in Fedora Extras: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras This can also be used for newer packages. However, I think renaming old packages isn't really worth the migration effort.