[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r30378 - in nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs: development/libraries/freetds top-level

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Mon Nov 14 22:56:54 CET 2011


Hi,

Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> skribis:

> On 11/14/11 3:17 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> (Also, I find it nicer when the description contains the name of the
>> package.)
>
> This is against the coding standards given in the nixpkgs manual[0]:
>
>> For brevity, don’t repeat the name of package — just describe what

Indeed.  But I think it’s slightly misguided ;-), because often the
tarball name doesn’t match the actual package name.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


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