[1329] in athena10
Re: Metapackage rename
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Mar 6 17:31:04 2009
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
Message-Id: <FC468296-15D3-49C0-8012-9D41B4C2DEFA@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903061648040.9996@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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On Mar 6, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> debathena-standard -> debathena-basic
>
> If we are going to rename debathena-standard, is it possible we can
> find a
> name that, rather than implying some particular “level” of
> functionality,
> substantively describes what kind of functionality that is?
>
> (I don’t know if anyone would actually say
> “I have plenty of bandwidth and disk space! Why would I only want
> the
> basic edition?”
> but that is the kind of connotation one gets from that name.)
>
> I suggested “debathena-local” as one alternative.
Well, plenty of people choose the "Matlab Lite" installer for Student
MATLAB, because it takes less time to download and install. Anyone
who answers "yes" to -extra-software, for example, and doesn't care
about LaTeX, will probably wish they had gone with "-basic".
"Local" really doesn't mean anything unless you have the context of
"as opposed to relying on the network", and most people don't know or
care about that. I see the point about "basic", but we should think
harder about this. Roget suggests "debathena-essential" or "debathena-
straightforward". Or, for the more whimsical minds among us, Roget
also suggests "debathena-sketchy", "debathena-bread-and-butter", and
"debathena-rough-and-ready".
>> debathena-workstation -> debathena-graphical-login
>
> I would maybe amend this to “debathena-login-graphical”, to follow the
> convention of listing name components in order of increasing
> specificity.
I like that.
-Jon
