Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (50 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 20 September 2007 03:38:30 am Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 06:13:09 Di Pe wrote:
> > I am showing zypper to quite a few scientists and developers these days.
> > They all love it but most of them actually think at first that "name" is
> > the primary key and alias is some sort of optional field. May be alias
> > should be called 'id' or 'key' or something like that. Or 'alias' could
> > be called 'name' and 'name' could be called 'description' or 'label' or
> > 'caption' or 'info' or something like that. just my 2 cents
>
> I agree, but it was the YUM people that did it in that way. Smart followed.
> We just to try to be compatible with them to make less confusion across
> distributions.
>
> Duncan

It's time to try the other way around:
"We set names, other follows." Maybe ;-) 

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Regards,
Rajko.
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