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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Changing default media names</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<PRE>Op zondag 20 november 2011 22:36:06 schreef nicolas vigier:
><i> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
</I>><i> > I'm not sure about it. I see the benefits, but to me there is a major
</I>><i> > drawback: they are not user-friendly :
</I>><i> > - current names are readable, new ones aren't, they're just technical
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</I>><i> Adding capitals and replacing / with spaces does not make the name more
</I>><i> user-friendly. If we want to be friendly with users, we should not
</I>><i> confuse them by calling the same thing with different names all the time.
</I>><i> The naming scheme for medias that is used almost everywhere including
</I>><i> on mirrors is i586/core/release, not Core 32bit Release.
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</I>><i> > - current naming scheme doesn't bother you with arch information, except
</I>><i> > on 64 bits system and only for 32 bits media
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</I>><i> That's the problem. Sometimes the arch is included, sometimes it is not.
</I>><i> And sometimes two names can refer to different things (Core Release is
</I>><i> not the same thing on x86_64 and i586 installs), or two different names
</I>><i> can refer to the same thing (Core Release on i586 is the same as Core
</I>><i> 32bit Release on x86_64 installs).
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</I>><i> And 32bit is not more user-friendly than i586. Sources is not more
</I>><i> user-friendly than SRPMS. We should call the same thing with the same
</I>><i> name all the time.
</I>[...]
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.
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