[1339] in athena10
Re: Metapackage rename
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Fri Mar 6 19:33:30 2009
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:27:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> "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".
I don't think "-essential" or "-minimal" or anything along those lines is
appropriate, since this package is not essential or minimal.
Personally, I think "-standard" is the best name we're going to come up
with for this. Ubuntu has a package called ubuntu-standard that has a
similar purpose.
-Tim Abbott
