Re: Ridiculously long PKGNAMEs

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> I'm working on a new bob feature and there are some package names that are
> making a mockery of trying to get things to fit nicely in an 80 column
> display.
> 
> These are almost certainly wrong:
> 
>   py314-gyp-0.1pre20210830.d6c5dd51dc3a60bf4ff32a5256713690a1a10376nb2
>   rtmpdump-2.6.0.0.6f6bb1353fc84f4cc37138baa99f586750028a01nb1
> 
> git sha in PKGVERSION makes no sense and is just asking for trouble.

True. I've updated the first and changed the second to use the date.

> It might be too late for these, but "-framework" seems redundant to me:
> 
>   py314-pyobjc-framework-AutomaticAssessmentConfiguration-12.1
>   py314-pyobjc-framework-LocalAuthenticationEmbeddedUI-12.1
>   py314-pyobjc-framework-MetalPerformanceShadersGraph-12.1
>   ...

No opinion on those.

> After that we're down to p5-* like:
> 
>   p5-Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP-Proxy-0.06nb16
>   p5-Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication-Store-RDBO-0.002nb18
>   p5-Catalyst-Authentication-Store-DBIx-Class-0.1506nb11
>   ...
> 
> and I think the names are too baked in at this point to change those, unless
> anyone has other ideas.

I think these should stay this way because they are the upstream
names.

Cheers,
 Thomas