[Goodies-dev] A better name WAS Re: Smart panel plugin (new)

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at uvena.de
Sat May 5 16:47:13 CEST 2007


On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:41:15 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
wrote:

> Am Sat, 5 May 2007 16:35:29 +0200
> schrieb mmassonnet at gmail.com:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sorry to answer in this part of the thread, but I deleted the
> > previous mails of it.
> >
> > Couldn't it be better to call the plugin s/smart/smartpackage/?
> >
> > That will really make more sense, I had only a clueless idea of what
> > this panel plugin was for.
>
> Well, the package manager is called 'smart'. I know 'smart' also is a
> regular english word. Anyway, you wouldn't expect to see a 'yum'
> plugin named 'yumpackage' would you?
But smart is also the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology System, a health control system for hard disks, see also
smartmontools.

On Debian, the smart package manager is called "smartpm", maybe that
would also be better for the plugin.

Just my 2 cents.

Regards,
Enrico

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