On Fri, 13 May 2005, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > 	1) Remove spamd from base and put it into pkgsrc.
> > 	2) Audit all manpages and fix the breakage.
> > 	3) Rename pfspamd back to spamd :-)

Definitely do 2.  Possibly do 1.  Please do not do 3.

> > 	Personally I would go for 1) and here's why:
> 
> i think it's a good idea.
> 
> (assuming that people don't care its name unless it's in base :-)

Please do not make a (pf)spamd package that conflicts with the
mail/spamassassin package.

More generally, even if there is no conflict (yet), I wish that packages
that installed many executables would use a common prefix to name
them all.  Do not have the "foo" package install bin/foo, bin/bar
and bin/baz, where bar and baz are things that ordinary users of the
foo package will be unlikely to care about, or where the names are
likely to conflict with other packages in the future; instead have the
"foo" package install bin/foo, bin/foo-bar and bin/foo-baz; or perhaps
bin/foo, libexec/foo/bar and libexec/foo/baz.

There are already too many packages that install things
under inappropriate names, and I don't want it to become
worse.  An example that I hit a few weeks ago was
jabberd, which installs /usr/pkg/bin/{c2s,s2s,resolver},
instead of /usr/pkg/bin/jabberd-{c2s,s2s,resolver} or
/usr/pkg/libexec/jabberd/{c2s,s2s,resolver}.

--apb (Alan Barrett)