[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name

Mon Jan 17 03:17:15 CET 2011

* Hoyt Duff (hoytduff at gmail.com) wrote:
+> On 1/16/11, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> 
+> >
+> > So I am favor to import it with this name (we didn't rename RPM because
+> > it mean RedHat Package Manager...).
+> >
+> 
+> At the risk of being called pedantic, RPM _now_ stands for "RPM
+> Package Manager" in all its GNU  recursive acronym goodness (GNU's Not
+> Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator, etc.) for precisely the reason you
+> raise, so people would not use/drop it because of the RedHat name.
+
+Thanks for the explanation... 
+
+But it was not the case when Mandrake started to use it, and neither
+when Mandrake became Mandriva (The new name appeared with the rpm5
+fork, and IIRC this fork appeared after Mandriva).
+
+> 
+> Where MDK or drak is part of the application name (and hence the
+> package name), it should not be changed because that is its name and
+> Mandriva did, in fact, create it. When Mageia writes its own
+> applications (mageiahelp, diskmagia, mageiasound) or forks the
+> MDK/drak application (and starts separate, non-cooperative
+> development), then change the name. Otherwise, it might be seen as if
+> we are trying to hide something if only the name appears to change
+> just to obscure the Mandriva origins..
+
+The problem is not only the name, but also all technical a rename can
+cause. The 'MDV' is part of perl module name, then it create
+dependencies between them. Changing this will force us to immediatelly
+patch some applications.
+
+There is way to create compatibility (Rafael Garcia-Suarez and I did it
+to rename MDK to MDV in past).
+I am just afraid by all breakage this can cause.
+
+-- 
+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
+♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖
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