Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Category Trees

[Rich M. <rd...@cf...>]

I didn't say much about the exact nature of the "unique identifiers",
largely because I don't have anything _that_ wonderful to propose.  I
have done some thinking on the subject, however, and I think that the
identifiers should be as mnemonic as possible, consistent with the
need for precision.

So, I might start with the "common name" of the package, coupled
with the initials of the principal developer, as:

   icon-rg
   perl-lw
   sendmail-ea

If we find a "sendmail" package written by Erin Aardvark, we can
call it "sendmail-ea2", but I don't see this happening too often.
It is a fairly simple experiment to get the names of the packages
listed by FileWatcher and sort them without respect to case.  YOU
can then examine the result for clashes.  I have, and there really
aren't all that many (after you allow for variants and versions of
the same package).

-r
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