On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:43:16 +0100, Thomas Spura wrote:
Trial-and-error guessing of package names isn't practical. Searching manually in possibly alphabetically sorted lists of thousands of packages isn't practical either.
"Isn't practical" is a perfect reason to improve it with a new python package naming proposal.
Check out the other replies. It would be much more of a reason to be as close as possible to upstream names, so documentation on the web would work, too, and users would get some result without guessing package names. Although I think running package searches is superior.
http://www.pygtk.org/ | | PyGTK for Linux | | PyGTK is included in most Linux distributions (including Debian, Fedora, | Ubuntu, Opensuse, Gentoo, Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE...);
Yet "yum install PyGTK" would not work. Introducing lots of prefixes or interpreter version identifiers is unlikely to end up with a clean/clear solution.
$ rpm -qR soundconverter|grep py /usr/bin/python gnome-python2-bonobo gnome-python2-canvas gnome-python2-gconf gnome-python2-gnome gnome-python2-gnomevfs gstreamer-python notify-python pygtk2