[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names

Sun Nov 20 22:59:32 CET 2011

Op zondag 20 november 2011 22:36:06 schreef nicolas vigier:
+> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> > I'm not sure about it. I see the benefits, but to me there is a major
+> > drawback: they are not user-friendly :
+> > - current names are readable, new ones aren't, they're just technical
+> 
+> Adding capitals and replacing / with spaces does not make the name more
+> user-friendly. If we want to be friendly with users, we should not
+> confuse them by calling the same thing with different names all the time.
+> The naming scheme for medias that is used almost everywhere including
+> on mirrors is i586/core/release, not Core 32bit Release.
+> 
+> > - current naming scheme doesn't bother you with arch information, except
+> > on 64 bits system and only for 32 bits media
+> 
+> That's the problem. Sometimes the arch is included, sometimes it is not.
+> And sometimes two names can refer to different things (Core Release is
+> not the same thing on x86_64 and i586 installs), or two different names
+> can refer to the same thing (Core Release on i586 is the same as Core
+> 32bit Release on x86_64 installs).
+> 
+> And 32bit is not more user-friendly than i586. Sources is not more
+> user-friendly than SRPMS. We should call the same thing with the same
+> name all the time.
+[...]
+
+I disagree with you here, I'm all for consistent media names that are easy to 
+complete, but "Core Release Source" is more userfriendly than 
+"SRPMS/core/release" . i'm pretty sure my dad would get even more lost than he 
+is right now.
+
+imho "Cauldron Core Release (source)" is more userfriendly than 
+"cauldron/SRPM/core/release". at least to people who don't even know what a 
+path is.
+
+it's acceptable for me to:
+ - no caps
+ - better ordering
+ - consistent arch adding
+
+but using pathnames, albeit the best consistency, is not good.
+
+imho we should be able in cli to use a unique identifier, but it doesn't have 
+to be the name as seen.
+
+if we can use urpm* commands with the path name as identifier, that's ok for me 
+too.
+
+